In every human

prance and prowl
the shadows of our shame.

Many people are born

zombis
Some soon turn into
zombis
And most have
zombihood
forced upon them.

Between the Propertied

and the Poor in Spirit
there is little space.

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.

A religion,

culture, or civilisation
that cannot cope with suicide
is fundamentally defective.

Friendship

is swapping credit-cards.
Love
if not forever
is just infatuation.

Drowning

Real men drink piss
Real men don't shave
Real men do kiss
Real men don't wave

The baby

is usually more toxic
than the bathwater.

Good Sex

Physically wonderful
emotional lie

The most pernicious chains

are chains of command.

Time goes forward.

Memory goes backward.
In the Beginning
we were stories.
In the End
we are oblivion.

French 'cuisine'

- a sadistic
drag-queen.

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 ?

Having turned

cornucopia
to
pharmacopœia,
we
are now thoroughly
poisoning
the sea.

Who is dead

and who is alive
is sometimes a matter
of opinion.

There is nothing to understand

because
there is
no
meaning.

The most wonderful

word I know
is
i n t e r i m .

The best thing in life

is that it ends.
The worst thing in life
might be how it ends.

Knowledge

ploughs the fertile
soil of prejudice.

Self-delusion
feels really good.

Prizegiving

"...and the winner
of The Earth is...
Entropy Inc."

Mass individualism

produces tax-payers
transcended, transfixed
by the gorgeous miracle
of their dull personalities.

When the world's controlled

by dinosaurs
the ending is
predictable.

A wet Saturday

I'm considering the rules
of Haiku Tennis.

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.

How sad

it is that intellect
is unconvivial.

It is so easy for evil

to make good
look silly.

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.

Each of us

is Allah's
carpet-flaw.


Version for Muslims:

Each of us
is al-Mumit's
carpet-flaw.

Ignorance

is nine-
tenths of
the law.

The only vacuum

in the cosmos
is the space
between people.

The rest is
connectivity.

'Empowerment'

is merely an easier
kind of
enslavement.

People who miss people

really miss
themselves.