In the end

everything is food
and death.

Happiness comes

not when the unfillable hole is blocked
but when the wound is healed by licking.

Hours, minutes,

employment, leisure:
the butchery of time.

Wolves howl

in many voices.
Humans
howl in one.

In the tunnel

of black and white
the fools believe
they are white.

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.

If love

is not
eternal
it is
ego.

Survival of the Fittest

If you equate fitness
with survival
then the fittest
are those who survive.

This is a tautology
not biology.

Something I didn't want to know...

Mosquitoes may have killed
more people
than people have.

The core of confidence

is humility.

Or, to put it another way,
true confidence is humble.

In the battle

between waving
and drowning
I try to be
a piece of seaweed.

There are idle rich

and idle poor -
but no idle beggars.

What's so wrong with idleness ?

Poetry is not

'the best words in the best order',
but the tautest expression
of the fiercest thoughts.

A poem's a small echo

heard through deadly noise.

The dirge of the dildo :

there's never a real person
at the other end.

In the toilet of the restaurant

at the end of the universe
time is sick.

On 'Bob Dylan'

In music
the banal can be sublime.
In poetry the banal
is merely noise.

Democracies can be worse than dictatorships.

The Zionist Dream
lies mindless in Gaza.

The suppression of kindness

is a function of
'progress'.

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.

The most addictive videogame is

sex.

Optimism

is never more than
shallow.

A head in Gaza

O Joy! Another day

closer to the grave
or the Mass Grave!

Marriage

is the first sign of dementia.

Most human activity is needless -

- except the prevention of human activity.

The finest human achievement

is the undoing of human achievement.
The best of man is his ruins.

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.

Bravery is everywhere

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

Is life

death masturbating ?