Life is

illusion of matter
and truth is
illusion of speech.

Racial Identity

Never having known
my father
I'm a quarter of
whatever
you think you are.

A good cook

is one who can make
a delicious meal
from the detritus in your fridge.

after Rumi

O tongue, you are a chattering disease -
and all our selves are withered worms
curled up on dying trees!

Is it just coincidence

that so much
'great art'
comes from so much
unpleasantness ?

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.

Pathos :

the core of every crime.

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.

Who would not be wiser

if he had a frugaliser ?

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...

Evolution : the cost

We plunder the planet
raging for what we don't know
we have lost.

The future

isn't just already past
but almost extinct!

'Conceptual art'

displays silly
concepts and
little talent.

CULL

is the word
that best sums us up.

Scientia

est potentia
est dementia.

Exquisite irony

Some of the Victorian asylums
near London have been converted
into "gated communities".

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

'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.

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.

Myxomatosis :

how conveniently
we have forgotten
the continuing horror.

Perhaps

the greatest achievement is
stillness.

Global Warming

People of goodwill have more & more enemies

Capitalism hates goodwill
- unless it can be marketed
like Christmas.

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.

Vasectomy:

the kindest cut,
the kindest destiny.

Chairs have four legs

because they were invented
by dogs
for dogs.

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.

If even a loud pop-singer can get it right...

'The world is a mesmerising mess
and humans are mesmerising messes.'

- Morrissey

Sexual jealousy

is just a kind of
disrespect.

In the Valley of the Shadow

a life-style
is no
way of life.

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.