If you have pretensions,
ambitions to be phatic,
you need to be more than
slightly charismatic
*
Deft I never was
in anything.
Deaf I am
becoming.
*
Inner-auditory
involuntary
creativity:
when you have earworms
all the time
occasionally they
get confused.
(Apologies, no rhyme.)
*
Money
demeans us
and makes us
(even if we weren't already)
mean.
*
If novels and newspapers
are not total rot,
the richer you are
the more nervy you get.
*
To call a Spade a Spade
has less to do with horticulture
than with skin-colour;
and Clubs are often
bruisingly exclusive.
(It was only today that I learned
the composition of a Club Sandwich.)
*
With only a little weed, a sneeze
becomes an orgasm in the nose.
*
We didn't need 'science' to tell us
that we are an environmental curse;
on the contrary, science ensured
that our damage gets worse and worse.
*
Did I hear correctly ? 'They' of the Israeli nation
were vaccinating Palestinians against polio
so that they can better endure
stinking-camp starvation.
*
The problem, Senator Yeats
(Ireland's supremely-phatic scrawler),
is that the Gyres don't widen;
but get smaller.
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