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.

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 ?