Love is

soup dream.

Life is
dream soup.

Those who most complain

about rain
are those who are trashing the planet
of pain.

Utopia -

such a relief to know
it could never
and doesn't
and cannot exist.

UNDERSTANDING MÖBIUS

The meaning of
catastrophe

is the catastrophe
of meaning.

'Easy listening'

fills me with unease.

Shrivelled

by the dragon-breath
of academics,
wizened as a mummy's dug:
Contemporary Poetry.

Humility

is really knowing
what you really are:

the only kind of animal
that sneers.

Real people

don't shave.

True intellectuals

have no friends.

GLOSS ON A POEM BY R.L. STEVENSON

Love - what is love ? A stupid, aching heart;
rage, tears, more rage, regret and long despair.
Life - what is life ? Expulsion from the lair
into a world that is a world apart.

Life is a foreign language.

Punishment is stupid.
Death is a smile
from the top of the pile.

Bravery is everywhere

except in humans.
Compared with us
the very stones are brave.

MINOTAUR

The terrible difference
between Man and Beast
is the terrible power
of arrogance.

The anti-rights

of the anti-man
and the anti-woman
are only three:

The right to question everything
- everything
The right to be illiterate
The right to have no name.

Without God

or gods
we might still be in Paradise.

People who take themselves seriously

wage war on others
and the world.

With this poem

which you may think is not a poem
I offer you more than a poem:
a little gift of silence.

'Retail therapy'

makes you docile,
turns you stupid,
kills dissent.

Religion :

more an attempt to
justify the unjustifiable
than to explain the inexplicable.

You write a poem,

stop. Then silence.
The silence is
a better poem:
the rest is
(as Verlaine wrote)
merely literature.

IN A TOWN

Today I saw
a hundred people
and a dog,
and the dog smiled.

Love is

estrangement's
distorting mirror.

Description

turns 'reality'
to 'fiction'.

A true atheist

is truly hard to find.
As they say in Albania:
Vetë e vërteta s'është shumë e fuqishme -
The truth, in truth, has little power.

Hate

is a poor protection
from hurt:
a soiled nappy*
never removed.
Contempt is much saner.
The Cynic's secret of life
is to loaf, despise,
and be happy.

*[US: Diaper]

The best teacher

is a music-teacher.
But none I had was any good.

RAGA

Alap
Alef
Alpha
Omega
Zyklon-B

chant maudit.

'Made in God's image',

the only species to make
war on itself
and all other species.

And you wonder why
I loathe monotheisms
and am ashamed to be human!