The Secret of Success

is to want very little.

Santa Claus

does not exist.
He has better things to do.

Happy folk

are rather rare
because folk think that there
are better ways to be.

After a while

romantic rendezvous
become little more than
low-grade job-interviews.

There are few things more despicable
than self-promotion.

The problem with being happy

is that you enjoy your own company
too much for your own bad.

Hyperbole

How can one be
"more than welcome" ?

Loss of Credit

Feeling the pinch,
some compassionate
people in Michigan
have dumped their dogs
for the vivisectors
of Ann Arbor to sweep up.

Evil celebrates itself

while good coughs nervously
and wrings its hands.

Money

was not invented
to do good.

The Consumer Society :

mean glories,
spangled wretchedness
and infantile behaviour.

Their 'crimes against humanity'

are nothing compared with
our crimes against nature

every day.

Humanity :

so many skills -
so much inanity.

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.

'Que estranha

forma de vida!'
So many species
at the end of their tether.

Philosophy

is distraction
from distraction
by distraction.

Ouroboros whispers

There aren't enough zeros.

Cain's Law

rules the world
Especially Israel
and Burma

After Prometheus

- was the most hubristic
event in human history
'The Enlightenment' ?

Respectability

is the universal
and worst
corruption.

What for you is squalid and nasty

might be a high point of my life.

Hungry ghosts,

we are all equal
in our emptiness.
Life is a matter
of making nothing
elegant.

What the hungry ghosts call

life
is merely virtual
for the very few who
live.

Desire leads to

desire
to desire
to desire:
the downward steps to
'liberation'.

Zen is

what you're sure
it's not.

Despite

everything

Life is

piles of trivialities
until the last supper
intravenously

way beyond hope.

Of course there were nice Nazis.

I have met
many of their kind.