illusion of matter
and truth is
illusion of speech.
Dingo the Dissident
Thursday 31 December 2009
Wednesday 30 December 2009
Tuesday 29 December 2009
Monday 28 December 2009
after Rumi
O tongue, you are a chattering disease -
and all our selves are withered worms
curled up on dying trees!
and all our selves are withered worms
curled up on dying trees!
Sunday 27 December 2009
Saturday 26 December 2009
Recessional
The richest peoples in the world -
with running hot water,
cars, unlimited food and drink
- actually think they are poor,
as they shower their infantilised
offspring with expensive junk.
with running hot water,
cars, unlimited food and drink
- actually think they are poor,
as they shower their infantilised
offspring with expensive junk.
Friday 25 December 2009
Thursday 24 December 2009
The first property
was language,
and with it we exterminated
the Neanderthals.
Now the best property
is the English language,
whose native speakers
are the most depressed
in all the world.
and with it we exterminated
the Neanderthals.
Now the best property
is the English language,
whose native speakers
are the most depressed
in all the world.
Wednesday 23 December 2009
Tuesday 22 December 2009
I love the smells
that other people hate :
chrysanthemums, my armpits,
cattle, horses, durian fruit,
dungheaps and wet dogs,
fresh tar, my socks, decaying logs...
chrysanthemums, my armpits,
cattle, horses, durian fruit,
dungheaps and wet dogs,
fresh tar, my socks, decaying logs...
Monday 21 December 2009
Sunday 20 December 2009
Saturday 19 December 2009
Friday 18 December 2009
Thursday 17 December 2009
Wednesday 16 December 2009
Exquisite irony
Some of the Victorian asylums
near London have been converted
into "gated communities".
near London have been converted
into "gated communities".
Tuesday 15 December 2009
Error #58, Pius IX, Syllabus of Errors, 1864
"No other forces will be recognised but those which reside in matter,
and all the rectitude and excellence of morality will be directed towards
the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means,
and the mere gratification of pleasure."
- Pius IX, Pontifex Maximus
and all the rectitude and excellence of morality will be directed towards
the accumulation and increase of riches by every possible means,
and the mere gratification of pleasure."
- Pius IX, Pontifex Maximus
Monday 14 December 2009
'Pygmy' children, seven years old,
male and female,
could - and still can -
feed and look after themselves
in the forest without the help
of the band.
'Civilised' children of similar
age can do little more than play
infantile games
and demand, demand, demand.
could - and still can -
feed and look after themselves
in the forest without the help
of the band.
'Civilised' children of similar
age can do little more than play
infantile games
and demand, demand, demand.
Sunday 13 December 2009
The Christian missionaries
(we don't say fundamentalists)
made and make
all the almost-naked wear
unflattering clothes.
The Islamic missionaries
(whom we call fundamentalists)
make clothed women cover themselves
with even garb that is even less flattering.
Monotheisms mean clothes.
made and make
all the almost-naked wear
unflattering clothes.
The Islamic missionaries
(whom we call fundamentalists)
make clothed women cover themselves
with even garb that is even less flattering.
Monotheisms mean clothes.
Saturday 12 December 2009
Friday 11 December 2009
Thursday 10 December 2009
Wednesday 9 December 2009
People of goodwill have more & more enemies
Capitalism hates goodwill
- unless it can be marketed
like Christmas.
- unless it can be marketed
like Christmas.
Tuesday 8 December 2009
No fears where no fence runs
The only human artefact
visible from outer space
is the Great Wall of China.
The forests have gone,
the seas are sick,
the earth is a ravaged vagina
crawling with walls.
Such pettiness, and such insanity!
Fences and walls define humanity.
visible from outer space
is the Great Wall of China.
The forests have gone,
the seas are sick,
the earth is a ravaged vagina
crawling with walls.
Such pettiness, and such insanity!
Fences and walls define humanity.
Monday 7 December 2009
Sunday 6 December 2009
Saturday 5 December 2009
It's not intelligence
nor even cunning
that has conquered the world
and raised city
after horrible city -
but our utter, our terrible
lack of pity.
that has conquered the world
and raised city
after horrible city -
but our utter, our terrible
lack of pity.
Friday 4 December 2009
If even a loud pop-singer can get it right...
'The world is a mesmerising mess
and humans are mesmerising messes.'
and humans are mesmerising messes.'
- Morrissey
Thursday 3 December 2009
Wednesday 2 December 2009
Tuesday 1 December 2009
In the Land of the Raging Loonies
last week, parents were prevented
from escorting other parents' children
to a school play, until they were vetted
for pædophilia and 'criminality'.
At the same time, it was seriously asserted
that an intinerant, mendicant preacher,
one Jesus from Galilee, visited Cornwall
around 2,000 years ago, before he was 30.
from escorting other parents' children
to a school play, until they were vetted
for pædophilia and 'criminality'.
At the same time, it was seriously asserted
that an intinerant, mendicant preacher,
one Jesus from Galilee, visited Cornwall
around 2,000 years ago, before he was 30.
Monday 30 November 2009
Sunday 29 November 2009
Saturday 28 November 2009
Friday 27 November 2009
Thursday 26 November 2009
Even Sadhus
up to their necks
in sand
are
(and Jesus on the cross was,
like Solomon in all
his glory)
pastures
and toilets
for skin-mites.
in sand
are
(and Jesus on the cross was,
like Solomon in all
his glory)
pastures
and toilets
for skin-mites.
Wednesday 25 November 2009
Tuesday 24 November 2009
Monday 23 November 2009
Sunday 22 November 2009
Saturday 21 November 2009
Friday 20 November 2009
Thursday 19 November 2009
Wednesday 18 November 2009
Tuesday 17 November 2009
Monday 16 November 2009
'The land of the free'
In the United States
there is (on average) one hospital
for every 55,000 people
and one prison for every
62,000 people.
Less than 5% of the world's population
locks up more than 25% of the world's prisoners.
In The World's Greatest Democracy
poverty is a crime.
there is (on average) one hospital
for every 55,000 people
and one prison for every
62,000 people.
Less than 5% of the world's population
locks up more than 25% of the world's prisoners.
In The World's Greatest Democracy
poverty is a crime.
Sunday 15 November 2009
'The home of the brave'
The United States of
America spend more on
"defense"
than Russia, China, Britain and France combined.
How soon dictatorship ?
The American Dream
is smoke and mirrors
obscuring the Nightmare
of the Poor and the Weak.
America spend more on
"defense"
than Russia, China, Britain and France combined.
How soon dictatorship ?
The American Dream
is smoke and mirrors
obscuring the Nightmare
of the Poor and the Weak.
Saturday 14 November 2009
Friday 13 November 2009
Thursday 12 November 2009
Wednesday 11 November 2009
Tuesday 10 November 2009
Sunday 8 November 2009
Saturday 7 November 2009
Friday 6 November 2009
Thursday 5 November 2009
Wednesday 4 November 2009
Tuesday 3 November 2009
Monday 2 November 2009
Sunday 1 November 2009
Saturday 31 October 2009
Friday 30 October 2009
Thursday 29 October 2009
The Romans
(it is said) were
mainly vegetarian.
(It will take some time
for the implications
to sink in.)
mainly vegetarian.
(It will take some time
for the implications
to sink in.)
Wednesday 28 October 2009
Tuesday 27 October 2009
The falsest people
are those who don't even know
they are false
while the falseness seeps out
and seeps out...
(I have always connected falseness
with clean fingernails.)
they are false
while the falseness seeps out
and seeps out...
(I have always connected falseness
with clean fingernails.)
Monday 26 October 2009
Sunday 25 October 2009
Let us praise al-Qaïda
for putting their hatred
and anger out in the open -
where as we
corrupt Westerners
make the crass error
of hiding real feelings
in sound-bites. We spew
out insanities such as
War against Drugs, and
The Sanctity of Human Life, and
War against Terror.
and anger out in the open -
where as we
corrupt Westerners
make the crass error
of hiding real feelings
in sound-bites. We spew
out insanities such as
War against Drugs, and
The Sanctity of Human Life, and
War against Terror.
Saturday 24 October 2009
Copernicus, Darwin, Freud
The earth is not the centre of the universe.
Mankind is not the summit of evolution.
The ego is a petty and
deranged dictator.
Mankind is not the summit of evolution.
The ego is a petty and
deranged dictator.
Friday 23 October 2009
Thursday 22 October 2009
When you think people are laughing,
often they are weeping.
When you think people are weeping,
the worst of them are laughing.
Weeping is better than words.
When you think people are weeping,
the worst of them are laughing.
Weeping is better than words.
Wednesday 21 October 2009
Tuesday 20 October 2009
Love is also
a kind of greed
But if you love yourself
you will be too loving
to bother others for love
or sex
But if you love yourself
you will be too loving
to bother others for love
or sex
Monday 19 October 2009
Sunday 18 October 2009
Saturday 17 October 2009
Friday 16 October 2009
Thursday 15 October 2009
Wednesday 14 October 2009
Tuesday 13 October 2009
Monday 12 October 2009
Sunday 11 October 2009
Saturday 10 October 2009
Friday 9 October 2009
Malheur
The only afflicted species
afflicts almost every other.
The most afflicted members
kindly kill themselves.
afflicts almost every other.
The most afflicted members
kindly kill themselves.
Thursday 8 October 2009
Overcoming consciousness
Against Nietzsche's
injunction to become
what you are
must be set Rumi's
observation that
your life is not your own.
injunction to become
what you are
must be set Rumi's
observation that
your life is not your own.
Wednesday 7 October 2009
Tuesday 6 October 2009
Monday 5 October 2009
That means and methods
may not be justified
by ends and goals
is hardly controversial.
Much more radical
and more important
is the understanding
that ends might be justified
only by the means employed.
by ends and goals
is hardly controversial.
Much more radical
and more important
is the understanding
that ends might be justified
only by the means employed.
Sunday 4 October 2009
Saturday 3 October 2009
Work Ethic
People who lack it
should get a
Disability Allowance.
But the strivers and achievers
wouldn't like that.
The Work Ethic is not
an ethic at all - but a means to an end:
riches, power, glory,
control of the planet until
it turns to poison and desert
beneath our hide-shod feet
before our unseeing eyes.
should get a
Disability Allowance.
But the strivers and achievers
wouldn't like that.
The Work Ethic is not
an ethic at all - but a means to an end:
riches, power, glory,
control of the planet until
it turns to poison and desert
beneath our hide-shod feet
before our unseeing eyes.
Friday 2 October 2009
Thursday 1 October 2009
Wednesday 30 September 2009
Tuesday 29 September 2009
My fellow-blogger
came to THE END.
He struggled to formulate
coherent and cogent observations.
He sent them into the world
and they fell down a hole.
He struggled through childhood.
He became an adult.
He slowly unlearned all that
he'd been told and taught.
He struggled to understand
what is going on
and off.
Then came to the conclusion
that life isn't worth living,
anyway.
But on he struggles
silently.
He struggled to formulate
coherent and cogent observations.
He sent them into the world
and they fell down a hole.
He struggled through childhood.
He became an adult.
He slowly unlearned all that
he'd been told and taught.
He struggled to understand
what is going on
and off.
Then came to the conclusion
that life isn't worth living,
anyway.
But on he struggles
silently.
Monday 28 September 2009
Sunday 27 September 2009
For many women
religion seems to be
the heart of a heartless world
while for men
it is often a handy excuse
to be heartless.
the heart of a heartless world
while for men
it is often a handy excuse
to be heartless.
Saturday 26 September 2009
Friday 25 September 2009
Spirituality is purposeless,
and thus true to itself.
Religion is teleological,
purposive, a means to an end
- and thus it is fundamentally
non-spiritual.
Religion is teleological,
purposive, a means to an end
- and thus it is fundamentally
non-spiritual.
Wednesday 23 September 2009
Tuesday 22 September 2009
Monday 21 September 2009
Sunday 20 September 2009
It should be no surprise
that after the demise
of grotesque, aggressive
dinosaurs (e.g. T-Rex)
top-end abominids
should be grotesque,
aggressive hominids -
to wit: H. 'sapiens'.
of grotesque, aggressive
dinosaurs (e.g. T-Rex)
top-end abominids
should be grotesque,
aggressive hominids -
to wit: H. 'sapiens'.
Saturday 19 September 2009
Friday 18 September 2009
The Business Prayer *
Our Business which art Divine,
Hallowed by Thy Name.
Monopoly come;
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in thy Desire.
Give us this day our daily job.
And punish us for our debts,
as we punish our debtors.
And lead us not into unproductivity,
but deliver us from all control -
For thine is Monopoly,
the Power and the Glory...
* (inspired by Black Redstart)
Hallowed by Thy Name.
Monopoly come;
Thy will be done on earth, as it is in thy Desire.
Give us this day our daily job.
And punish us for our debts,
as we punish our debtors.
And lead us not into unproductivity,
but deliver us from all control -
For thine is Monopoly,
the Power and the Glory...
* (inspired by Black Redstart)
Thursday 17 September 2009
To seem to justify
their own existence,
people have children
who have children,
dynasti-exponentially
with insane persistence.
people have children
who have children,
dynasti-exponentially
with insane persistence.
Wednesday 16 September 2009
Tuesday 15 September 2009
Monday 14 September 2009
Sunday 13 September 2009
Saturday 12 September 2009
Friday 11 September 2009
Thursday 10 September 2009
The arrogance of stupidity
The stupidity of arrogance
The futility of communication
The communication of futility
The futility of communication
The communication of futility
Wednesday 9 September 2009
Tuesday 8 September 2009
So many times :
Man's time
Noman's time
Sidereal time
Utmost
eternity
And the time it takes
to turn a child
into a producing
and consuming
ghost.
Noman's time
Sidereal time
Utmost
eternity
And the time it takes
to turn a child
into a producing
and consuming
ghost.
Monday 7 September 2009
Sunday 6 September 2009
Saturday 5 September 2009
Friday 4 September 2009
Thursday 3 September 2009
Wednesday 2 September 2009
Tuesday 1 September 2009
Monday 31 August 2009
Sunday 30 August 2009
Saturday 29 August 2009
1914
While Danish children
were reading
Hans Christian Andersen
German children
were reading
the Brothers Grimm...
were reading
Hans Christian Andersen
German children
were reading
the Brothers Grimm...
Friday 28 August 2009
Thursday 27 August 2009
Wednesday 26 August 2009
Isn't it sad ?
The human curse:
we take something good,
demean, destroy it;
we take something bad
and make it worse.
we take something good,
demean, destroy it;
we take something bad
and make it worse.
Tuesday 25 August 2009
Monday 24 August 2009
Sunday 23 August 2009
Saturday 22 August 2009
Friday 21 August 2009
Thursday 20 August 2009
The function of culture
is not to enlighten,
but to particularise
thus ensuring
that few realise
how the grinding systems work.
but to particularise
thus ensuring
that few realise
how the grinding systems work.
Wednesday 19 August 2009
Tuesday 18 August 2009
Monday 17 August 2009
Sunday 16 August 2009
Saturday 15 August 2009
We are the only species
whose members
cannot size up each other
on sight or smell.
Is this intelligence ?
cannot size up each other
on sight or smell.
Is this intelligence ?
Friday 14 August 2009
Unpleasant words
make unpleasant people:
- eradicate
...abnormal
...traitor
...exterminate
...paternity
...troubleshoot
...money
...right
...patriotism
...acquire
and a thousand others.
...abnormal
...traitor
...exterminate
...paternity
...troubleshoot
...money
...right
...patriotism
...acquire
Thursday 13 August 2009
To the grand collections
of the grandiose
Victoria and Albert Museum
in London, Queen Victoria
donated only a Raphael cartoon.
But more recently,
that august institution acquired
a single nether piece
of that Queen's
underwear.
Victoria and Albert Museum
in London, Queen Victoria
donated only a Raphael cartoon.
But more recently,
that august institution acquired
a single nether piece
of that Queen's
underwear.
Wednesday 12 August 2009
Life is like
Tripes à la mode de Caen*.
If you're lucky, you love it.
If not, you have to decide to
take what you're given,
pretend that it is something else,
or get rid of it discreetly.
*Cold pickled tripe in disgusting jelly
If you're lucky, you love it.
If not, you have to decide to
take what you're given,
pretend that it is something else,
or get rid of it discreetly.
*Cold pickled tripe in disgusting jelly
Tuesday 11 August 2009
Monday 10 August 2009
The art best cultivated
is the art of waiting
for the art of being still
or for the strength of clay
that can resist the potter's will.
(Homage to Omar Khayyám)
for the art of being still
or for the strength of clay
that can resist the potter's will.
(Homage to Omar Khayyám)
Sunday 9 August 2009
The 'lily'
Saturday 8 August 2009
Ten Reasons why the British* are the Living Dead of Europe:
1. they live in a bubble of obsession with the two World Wars
2. they are in love with their grotesque ideas of Germany and Germans (and keep publishing books about Hitler, Nazism and the Third Reich - but not about Mussolini, Stalin, Franco etc.)
3. they hate the European Union because it was the post-war peace-child of Germany, Benelux and France, founded - without England's permission - to guarantee no more wars in Europe
4. they are still in the mind-set of the Hundred Years War and the Napoleonic Wars
against France, wallowing in a myth of an 'Island Race', though they are of Franco-Germanic origin with a touch of Celt even less than the Irish and rather less than the French.
5. they refuse to believe that their genocidal empire was evil in any way
6. they share a language with the USA and, since the withering of its empire, are always trying desperately to share America's power
7. they do not know how to enjoy themselves pleasantly abroad
8. together with the Irish, they have become the most discourteous, most off-hand, unwelcoming and peremptory people in the Northern Hemisphere
9. they regard all other languages and literatures as inferior
10. they think that morality resides in lucrative hypocrisy, which is why the French have for long described them as 'perfidious'.
*They invented the weasel-word 'British' along with the pompous 'United Kingdom',
and, not suprisingly, have an Identity Problem nearly as great as that of the Northern Irish.
2. they are in love with their grotesque ideas of Germany and Germans (and keep publishing books about Hitler, Nazism and the Third Reich - but not about Mussolini, Stalin, Franco etc.)
3. they hate the European Union because it was the post-war peace-child of Germany, Benelux and France, founded - without England's permission - to guarantee no more wars in Europe
4. they are still in the mind-set of the Hundred Years War and the Napoleonic Wars
against France, wallowing in a myth of an 'Island Race', though they are of Franco-Germanic origin with a touch of Celt even less than the Irish and rather less than the French.
5. they refuse to believe that their genocidal empire was evil in any way
6. they share a language with the USA and, since the withering of its empire, are always trying desperately to share America's power
7. they do not know how to enjoy themselves pleasantly abroad
8. together with the Irish, they have become the most discourteous, most off-hand, unwelcoming and peremptory people in the Northern Hemisphere
9. they regard all other languages and literatures as inferior
10. they think that morality resides in lucrative hypocrisy, which is why the French have for long described them as 'perfidious'.
*They invented the weasel-word 'British' along with the pompous 'United Kingdom',
and, not suprisingly, have an Identity Problem nearly as great as that of the Northern Irish.
Friday 7 August 2009
Yesterday
the last 'British' soldier-survivor of World War One
was given a splendid funeral. Thousands lined
the route to the grave, and they appear on the front page
of today's newspapers.
Hundreds of thousands died in World War One:
cannon-fodder, only some of them 'British'
(including Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Manx).
The 'British' never get to hear about the French, whose countryside
was utterly destroyed, and a whole generation of whose males
were wiped out from Metz to Biarritz and Marseille to Dunkerque.
The crippling war-reparations that Germany
had to pay France in the 1920s went, largely, to fill in the trenches
and the craters, bury bits of corpses,
and to re-establish the local populations and
their farms, their livestock, and their copses.
Now you would almost imagine rural Picardy
had always been serene and lush.
The 'British' do not want to hear about the French who defended them
(and France) in World War One,
nor about the million Russians who died in World War Two
and kept the Germans from invading England.
Both France and Russia suffered terribly in both World Wars,
but it is the 'British' who keep droning on about heroes and courage
in two hecatombs for which they were
in great part responsible.
There were also Turks and Austrians and Czechs, Hungarians,
Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians and Lesser Subjects of the Evil British Empire
including many Irish and some Africans - and, last, but certainly
not least, envied Americans (many of them black).
Then there were the thinkers, the conscientious objectors, those
who refused to be deceived into patriotism, who were shot
as traitors because they rightly thought the war was wrong.
Who bothers to mention the tens of thousands of handsome horses
who were killed all over Europe ?
Coming up to date:
we have heard little about the tens of thousands of Iraqis
shot or otherwise murdered after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq
under false pretences - which didn't fool the French or anyone else.
We hear almost nothing about the thousands of Afghans
shot and blown up in yet another British Military Adventure.
And it is still criminal in the British Isles to help
a helpless friend who wants to die.
was given a splendid funeral. Thousands lined
the route to the grave, and they appear on the front page
of today's newspapers.
Hundreds of thousands died in World War One:
cannon-fodder, only some of them 'British'
(including Scottish, Irish, Welsh and Manx).
The 'British' never get to hear about the French, whose countryside
was utterly destroyed, and a whole generation of whose males
were wiped out from Metz to Biarritz and Marseille to Dunkerque.
The crippling war-reparations that Germany
had to pay France in the 1920s went, largely, to fill in the trenches
and the craters, bury bits of corpses,
and to re-establish the local populations and
their farms, their livestock, and their copses.
Now you would almost imagine rural Picardy
had always been serene and lush.
The 'British' do not want to hear about the French who defended them
(and France) in World War One,
nor about the million Russians who died in World War Two
and kept the Germans from invading England.
Both France and Russia suffered terribly in both World Wars,
but it is the 'British' who keep droning on about heroes and courage
in two hecatombs for which they were
in great part responsible.
There were also Turks and Austrians and Czechs, Hungarians,
Ukrainians, Poles, Romanians and Lesser Subjects of the Evil British Empire
including many Irish and some Africans - and, last, but certainly
not least, envied Americans (many of them black).
Then there were the thinkers, the conscientious objectors, those
who refused to be deceived into patriotism, who were shot
as traitors because they rightly thought the war was wrong.
Who bothers to mention the tens of thousands of handsome horses
who were killed all over Europe ?
Coming up to date:
we have heard little about the tens of thousands of Iraqis
shot or otherwise murdered after the Anglo-American invasion of Iraq
under false pretences - which didn't fool the French or anyone else.
We hear almost nothing about the thousands of Afghans
shot and blown up in yet another British Military Adventure.
And it is still criminal in the British Isles to help
a helpless friend who wants to die.
Thursday 6 August 2009
Wednesday 5 August 2009
For that carton of yogurt you've just thrown away
cattle had to be bred
for a few thousand years
of war and rapine
and the cows inseminated
and fed chemical supplements
and their calves removed
while the mothers grieved
and moaned for many days
and were milked by incredible machine
until they were too old
and were 'recycled'.
the milk was taken by a tanker
to a factory, and checked
and separated from its cream
and superheated and processed
and put into silly plastic cartons by machine
and packed into boxes and sent out
to supermarkets where you bought a pack
of six and forgot about them in the fridge.
This 'Natural Product' went first into a dumpster
and then a dumping vehicle
and then a landfill Gehenna...
Our species is a monster.
for a few thousand years
of war and rapine
and the cows inseminated
and fed chemical supplements
and their calves removed
while the mothers grieved
and moaned for many days
and were milked by incredible machine
until they were too old
and were 'recycled'.
the milk was taken by a tanker
to a factory, and checked
and separated from its cream
and superheated and processed
and put into silly plastic cartons by machine
and packed into boxes and sent out
to supermarkets where you bought a pack
of six and forgot about them in the fridge.
This 'Natural Product' went first into a dumpster
and then a dumping vehicle
and then a landfill Gehenna...
Our species is a monster.
Tuesday 4 August 2009
Saints and Traitors
The difference between a traitor and a saint
is that a traitor is considered to belong
beforehand
while a saint belongs afterwards.
There is very little difference
between a traitor and a trader.
is that a traitor is considered to belong
beforehand
while a saint belongs afterwards.
There is very little difference
between a traitor and a trader.
Monday 3 August 2009
Sunday 2 August 2009
Dogs do not deceive.
We beat them,
treat them as living furniture.
Some eat them.
We, who live by malice
aforethought, think
they are inferior.
We think that beating
is superior behaviour.
(posted on the Feast Day of
St.Basil-Fool-for-Christ)
treat them as living furniture.
Some eat them.
We, who live by malice
aforethought, think
they are inferior.
We think that beating
is superior behaviour.
(posted on the Feast Day of
St.Basil-Fool-for-Christ)
Saturday 1 August 2009
God, the Divine Criminal,
who runs a gulag in the sky
where there are no turds,
and justifies the criminality of Man,
is a distant being, composed of words.
But the Devil has a tendency
to live next-door.
Stupidity is a condition
that makes friends with fear.
where there are no turds,
and justifies the criminality of Man,
is a distant being, composed of words.
But the Devil has a tendency
to live next-door.
Stupidity is a condition
that makes friends with fear.
Friday 31 July 2009
Civilisations,
obsessed with produce
produce only
mass-destruction.
Cultures
obsessed with achievement
achieve only
mass-destruction.
produce only
mass-destruction.
Cultures
obsessed with achievement
achieve only
mass-destruction.
Thursday 30 July 2009
Wednesday 29 July 2009
Tuesday 28 July 2009
Monday 27 July 2009
Concepts I don't understand that begin with M
Money
Marriage
Monogamy
Mass-entertainment
Mbition
Mployment
Marriage
Monogamy
Mass-entertainment
Mbition
Mployment
Sunday 26 July 2009
Saturday 25 July 2009
Friday 24 July 2009
Thursday 23 July 2009
Wednesday 22 July 2009
Tuesday 21 July 2009
Slaves of Nevermore
Humans are the only animals
obsessed
with their mortality.
And humans are the only animals
so unpleasantly intelligent
that they had to invent
constantly re-invent
morality.
obsessed
with their mortality.
And humans are the only animals
so unpleasantly intelligent
that they had to invent
constantly re-invent
morality.
Monday 20 July 2009
Sunday 19 July 2009
Saturday 18 July 2009
Anniversary
I have never had
and never will have
a television set.
So I did not see
the First Men
Walking on the Moon
forty years ago.
I was surely not
the only one
to murmur
"So what ?"
when I heard it
on the radio ?
and never will have
a television set.
So I did not see
the First Men
Walking on the Moon
forty years ago.
I was surely not
the only one
to murmur
"So what ?"
when I heard it
on the radio ?
Friday 17 July 2009
Thursday 16 July 2009
'Jouir'
is French for 'to rejoice'.
The difference between
Anglo and Franco
(Lewis and Louis)
is encapsulated
by the respective words
for 'ejaculated':
come, and joui.
The difference between
Anglo and Franco
(Lewis and Louis)
is encapsulated
by the respective words
for 'ejaculated':
come, and joui.
Wednesday 15 July 2009
Tuesday 14 July 2009
Monday 13 July 2009
Sunday 12 July 2009
Saturday 11 July 2009
Rather than being the only
moral mammal,
I suspect that humans are
the least moral mammal.
Our 'superiority' inheres
in our immorality.
I suspect that humans are
the least moral mammal.
Our 'superiority' inheres
in our immorality.
Friday 10 July 2009
Thursday 9 July 2009
The human
is an animal which invents
narratives, now called myth,
religion, fact, understanding,
science etc.
What we call soul is just
an aptitude for narrative.
This is what makes us mad,
bad and dangerous to know
- especially if you're a wolf.
And beyond the narrative of the
Sixth Extinction, bacteria
are Lords of Creation
who lived before the First Extinction.
narratives, now called myth,
religion, fact, understanding,
science etc.
What we call soul is just
an aptitude for narrative.
This is what makes us mad,
bad and dangerous to know
- especially if you're a wolf.
And beyond the narrative of the
Sixth Extinction, bacteria
are Lords of Creation
who lived before the First Extinction.
Wednesday 8 July 2009
Tuesday 7 July 2009
In democracy's
escalating fraud
the rich extract
and the poor
far, far away
expire:
half a million every day
while human population
increases exponentially.
the rich extract
and the poor
far, far away
expire:
half a million every day
while human population
increases exponentially.
Monday 6 July 2009
Sunday 5 July 2009
The cleverest people
are those clever people who
can make the stupid
less stupid.
If there have ever been any
for stupidity constantly
cleverly
re-invents itself.
can make the stupid
less stupid.
If there have ever been any
for stupidity constantly
cleverly
re-invents itself.
Saturday 4 July 2009
Friday 3 July 2009
Thursday 2 July 2009
Wednesday 1 July 2009
Tuesday 30 June 2009
Monday 29 June 2009
Sunday 28 June 2009
The first miracle
is birth
or breaking out of the egg.
The second miracle
is male erection
especially a mule's.
The last miracle is
death.
Add worship
to miracle
and you get
deceit everlasting.
or breaking out of the egg.
The second miracle
is male erection
especially a mule's.
The last miracle is
death.
Add worship
to miracle
and you get
deceit everlasting.
Saturday 27 June 2009
Friday 26 June 2009
Thursday 25 June 2009
Wednesday 24 June 2009
Tuesday 23 June 2009
Monday 22 June 2009
Sunday 21 June 2009
Saturday 20 June 2009
Friday 19 June 2009
Thursday 18 June 2009
Wednesday 17 June 2009
Tuesday 16 June 2009
Capitalism
is a system wherein those who are active
constantly try to cheat each other
and those who are passive.
If this really is the least-bad system we can devise,
we are less intelligent than dogs or rabbits.
constantly try to cheat each other
and those who are passive.
If this really is the least-bad system we can devise,
we are less intelligent than dogs or rabbits.
Monday 15 June 2009
Sunday 14 June 2009
Saturday 13 June 2009
Friday 12 June 2009
Thursday 11 June 2009
Tuesday 9 June 2009
Monday 8 June 2009
Sunday 7 June 2009
Saturday 6 June 2009
Friday 5 June 2009
Yesterday
- was I the only person in the world
eating cherries, drinking Gaillac
while listening to Schnittke's
3rd quartet ?
eating cherries, drinking Gaillac
while listening to Schnittke's
3rd quartet ?
Thursday 4 June 2009
The last people
that a true poet wants to meet
are other poets - whether true or false;
which is why so few true poets
go to poetry festivals.
are other poets - whether true or false;
which is why so few true poets
go to poetry festivals.
Wednesday 3 June 2009
Tuesday 2 June 2009
Monday 1 June 2009
Sunday 31 May 2009
Saturday 30 May 2009
Friday 29 May 2009
Thursday 28 May 2009
Surveillance
Above, beyond the queue
the monitor
displaying every aisle
and every stand
within the store, revealing
all except the slight
shoplifter's sleight-of-hand.
the monitor
displaying every aisle
and every stand
within the store, revealing
all except the slight
shoplifter's sleight-of-hand.
Wednesday 27 May 2009
Tuesday 26 May 2009
Monday 25 May 2009
Sunday 24 May 2009
Saturday 23 May 2009
Friday 22 May 2009
Thursday 21 May 2009
Wednesday 20 May 2009
Tuesday 19 May 2009
Why do human babies cry ?
Is it because
life is such an outrageous
imposition ?
Or is it because
human consciousness
is a kind of
continual drowning ?
life is such an outrageous
imposition ?
Or is it because
human consciousness
is a kind of
continual drowning ?
Monday 18 May 2009
Sunday 17 May 2009
Saturday 16 May 2009
Friday 15 May 2009
Thursday 14 May 2009
Wednesday 13 May 2009
Tuesday 12 May 2009
Monday 11 May 2009
Mass individualism
produces tax-payers
transcended, transfixed
by the gorgeous miracle
of their dull personalities.
transcended, transfixed
by the gorgeous miracle
of their dull personalities.
Sunday 10 May 2009
Saturday 9 May 2009
It never occurred to me before
that sex
for most people
is some sort of
validation.
Yet this might have been
part of the soft, rich
tapestry of feelings I had
on those few occasions
when intimacy
was flawless,
wonderful.
for most people
is some sort of
validation.
Yet this might have been
part of the soft, rich
tapestry of feelings I had
on those few occasions
when intimacy
was flawless,
wonderful.
Friday 8 May 2009
Thursday 7 May 2009
Wednesday 6 May 2009
The obscenity of lawns
As the world heats up
we'll pour more water on our lawns,
then burn up petroleum to cut them.
And we think we're rational.
we'll pour more water on our lawns,
then burn up petroleum to cut them.
And we think we're rational.
Tuesday 5 May 2009
Monday 4 May 2009
Sunday 3 May 2009
Saturday 2 May 2009
Friday 1 May 2009
Thursday 30 April 2009
Wednesday 29 April 2009
Monday 27 April 2009
Sunday 26 April 2009
Saturday 25 April 2009
Friday 24 April 2009
Thursday 23 April 2009
Wednesday 22 April 2009
Tuesday 21 April 2009
Monday 20 April 2009
The rain of error
The reign of terror
The terrifying brain
The cuckoo in the dodo's nest
will never be the same again.
The terrifying brain
The cuckoo in the dodo's nest
will never be the same again.
Sunday 19 April 2009
Saturday 18 April 2009
Friday 17 April 2009
Thursday 16 April 2009
Wednesday 15 April 2009
Tuesday 14 April 2009
Monday 13 April 2009
Sunday 12 April 2009
Médecins Sans Frontières
In twenty years' time
or less, the kids you saved in Africa
will be trying to tunnel under
or storm the high walls of Europe,
and will perish in the attempt.
or less, the kids you saved in Africa
will be trying to tunnel under
or storm the high walls of Europe,
and will perish in the attempt.
Saturday 11 April 2009
Friday 10 April 2009
Thursday 9 April 2009
Wednesday 8 April 2009
Gloss on lines by William Blake
Every afternoon and night and morn
millions to dreadful humanness are born.
Every morn and afternoon and night
few are born to sheer delight.
millions to dreadful humanness are born.
Every morn and afternoon and night
few are born to sheer delight.
Tuesday 7 April 2009
Sunday 5 April 2009
There are hundreds of millions
of dead people walking,
dead people ceaselessly talking,
under the clouds, under the sun,
dead to the world,
to awareness -
are you one ?
dead people ceaselessly talking,
under the clouds, under the sun,
dead to the world,
to awareness -
are you one ?
Saturday 4 April 2009
Friday 3 April 2009
Thursday 2 April 2009
Wednesday 1 April 2009
I do not see how
people who abuse children
are worse, in the Scheme of Things,
than those who abuse other animals,
nor why those who abuse animals
are worse than those who torture plants.
are worse, in the Scheme of Things,
than those who abuse other animals,
nor why those who abuse animals
are worse than those who torture plants.
Tuesday 31 March 2009
Belittling a bitterly failed infatuation:
you despise yourself
for having fallen into it -
but you did not fall:
you jumped for joy.
And now you ken
that you would be no wiser now
if you had not been hopeful then.
for having fallen into it -
but you did not fall:
you jumped for joy.
And now you ken
that you would be no wiser now
if you had not been hopeful then.
Monday 30 March 2009
Eugene O'Neill
(a great American playwright)
wrote:
"Man is born broken
and lives by mending."
But the opposite is more true:
we are born as whole as we can be
and are systematically dismantled.
wrote:
"Man is born broken
and lives by mending."
But the opposite is more true:
we are born as whole as we can be
and are systematically dismantled.
Sunday 29 March 2009
Saturday 28 March 2009
Friday 27 March 2009
Thursday 26 March 2009
Wednesday 25 March 2009
Tuesday 24 March 2009
Monday 23 March 2009
On the postcard
I wrote:
Be patient - things
will turn out OK.
But to whom
shall I address it ?
The dry clay ?
Be patient - things
will turn out OK.
But to whom
shall I address it ?
The dry clay ?
Sunday 22 March 2009
You are probably
a nothing
and a nobody like me,
out at sea.
I am because
you are
and I don't
know who
you are.
and a nobody like me,
out at sea.
I am because
you are
and I don't
know who
you are.
Saturday 21 March 2009
Wednesday 18 March 2009
Tuesday 17 March 2009
Monday 16 March 2009
Sunday 15 March 2009
Saturday 14 March 2009
Friday 13 March 2009
Thursday 12 March 2009
Wednesday 11 March 2009
Tuesday 10 March 2009
Sick civilisation
praises every talent
except
the talent to be harmless.
10-03-2009
13-03-1430
14-07-1725
except
the talent to be harmless.
10-03-2009
13-03-1430
14-07-1725
Monday 9 March 2009
Sunday 8 March 2009
Saturday 7 March 2009
Do they not know
that a man's soul
is in his beard -
his visiopilation
- and that those who shave
are in sore
need of salvation ?
is in his beard -
his visiopilation
- and that those who shave
are in sore
need of salvation ?
Friday 6 March 2009
Wednesday 4 March 2009
Do they not know
that a woman's soul
is in her armpit -
her axillipilation
- and that those who shave
are in sore
need of salvation ?
is in her armpit -
her axillipilation
- and that those who shave
are in sore
need of salvation ?
Tuesday 3 March 2009
Monday 2 March 2009
Sunday 1 March 2009
Saturday 28 February 2009
Friday 27 February 2009
Thursday 26 February 2009
Wednesday 25 February 2009
After a while
romantic rendezvous
become little more than
low-grade job-interviews.
There are few things more despicable
than self-promotion.
become little more than
low-grade job-interviews.
There are few things more despicable
than self-promotion.
Tuesday 24 February 2009
Monday 23 February 2009
Sunday 22 February 2009
Loss of Credit
Feeling the pinch,
some compassionate
people in Michigan
have dumped their dogs
for the vivisectors
of Ann Arbor to sweep up.
some compassionate
people in Michigan
have dumped their dogs
for the vivisectors
of Ann Arbor to sweep up.
Saturday 21 February 2009
Thursday 19 February 2009
Wednesday 18 February 2009
Tuesday 17 February 2009
Monday 16 February 2009
Sunday 15 February 2009
Between
the Garden of Eden
and climatic catastrophe :
the steel jaws of human vanity.
Between
the darkness of the womb
and the silence of the tomb :
too much light, too much noise,
and the destruction of boys.
and climatic catastrophe :
the steel jaws of human vanity.
Between
the darkness of the womb
and the silence of the tomb :
too much light, too much noise,
and the destruction of boys.
Saturday 14 February 2009
Friday 13 February 2009
Thursday 12 February 2009
Wednesday 11 February 2009
Tuesday 10 February 2009
Monday 9 February 2009
Sunday 8 February 2009
Saturday 7 February 2009
Friday 6 February 2009
Thursday 5 February 2009
Wednesday 4 February 2009
Tuesday 3 February 2009
Monday 2 February 2009
Sunday 1 February 2009
Saturday 31 January 2009
Friday 30 January 2009
Thursday 29 January 2009
Wednesday 28 January 2009
Tuesday 27 January 2009
Monday 26 January 2009
On the 250th anniversary of the birth of Robert Burns, peasant-poet
The man of independent mind
dares to be poor -
a dog's a god for all that.
dares to be poor -
a dog's a god for all that.
Sunday 25 January 2009
Saturday 24 January 2009
Survival of the Fittest
If you equate fitness
with survival
then the fittest
are those who survive.
This is a tautology
not biology.
with survival
then the fittest
are those who survive.
This is a tautology
not biology.
Friday 23 January 2009
Thursday 22 January 2009
Wednesday 21 January 2009
Tuesday 20 January 2009
Sunday 18 January 2009
Poetry is not
'the best words in the best order',
but the tautest expression
of the fiercest thoughts.
but the tautest expression
of the fiercest thoughts.
Saturday 17 January 2009
Friday 16 January 2009
Thursday 15 January 2009
Wednesday 14 January 2009
Tuesday 13 January 2009
Monday 12 January 2009
Sunday 11 January 2009
In my medieval village
I walked the 600 metres
to the cinema, and watched
CHE (part 1), which, at a cost
of $60 million, gave me a mean
spectacle of men giving orders to
and murdering each other.
to the cinema, and watched
CHE (part 1), which, at a cost
of $60 million, gave me a mean
spectacle of men giving orders to
and murdering each other.
Saturday 10 January 2009
Friday 9 January 2009
Thursday 8 January 2009
Wednesday 7 January 2009
Tuesday 6 January 2009
Monday 5 January 2009
Sunday 4 January 2009
Saturday 3 January 2009
to the British Prime Minister,
A POEM WHICH CONTRAVENES
THE TERRORISM ACT
Hardworking, family man
doesn't know
pride from remorse.
Hardworking, family man
needs a bomb
up his arse.
THE TERRORISM ACT
Hardworking, family man
doesn't know
pride from remorse.
Hardworking, family man
needs a bomb
up his arse.
Friday 2 January 2009
Thursday 1 January 2009
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