A Crown of Thorns

is nothing more
than a metaphor :
the pain
of the barbedwireness
of the brain.

Freitod

Where suicide is outlawed
it is not to protect us
but to keep us from escaping.

(after Bardhyl Londo)

Soul-shit

There's no such thing as
soul
just a hole
a soul-slit...

Confession of a HomoseNSual

Half the homoseXuals I meet
depress me;
the others make me angry.

'Sport'

Competitiveness
infantilises.

The Past

is a lone wolf :
let it pass, and it will sing
to the Northern Lights.
Try to capture it,
and it will attack you.

Chaos

and vandalism
are not the same.

All business
is unfinished.

What is a mind ?

but a freak and defective
reasoning-processor
with attitude;

a badly-designed
cogitation-apparatus
which, conscious of its
own deficiencies, is just
a mutant, an evolutionary
aberration.

Poetry

is not information
- so this is not a poem
(so far).

Democracy
turns out to be
government
by hypocrisy.

This is now
and certainly
despite your snorts
a poem
(of sorts).

Toxic emissions

can also be
emotional.

Orpheus

Animals are
infinitely more enchanting
than music


















even music of the most profound
and temporarily-transforming kind.

Secret Power

Those who affect
your language
affect you.

Nakedness

was heroic in ancient Greece,
shameful in Judæa,
the mark of slavery in Rome,

and is thought sinful even now
everywhere Europeans have
worked their dire effects,
because it is dismally,
stupidly configured
with penetrative sex.

Only a fool

can continue to imagine
that life is worth living.
All the living are fools
who have learned nothing
from the living or the dead.

Wider still, and wider -
for no fool is a spider.

(from the Patmospherian Gospel of
St Anthony Vasectomicus
Tome MXM, Cap.666)

Christianity

slowly, slowly drained
the colour from the world.
Islam puts a little back:
red and black.

Big Brother

Behold!
From a compulsory
but undefined social contract
oozed Nanny Leviathan:
government
by television, newspapers,
and (of course) banks
- backed up by tanks.

The more

words
The fewer
truths.

"Gay Pride"

in Belfast:
no-one threw bombs.
Many threw up.

Many tons of rubbish
were thrown down.

Employment :

the strings
that pathetic human
puppets dangle
from - and are emotionally
strangled.

A humble refutation of monotheism

If we are 'made in God's image',
God must be a pretty ugly animal
compared with, say, a Slow Loris.




















And if we are the best that God
could produce, God help Him!

(I guess he didn't so much die
as lose the will to live...)

Tournament of values

What nobody will learn at school
is the only thing worth knowing:
how to live.

A Maundering

I am so disgusted by double-think,
mendacity, hypocrisy and greed
that I sometimes think that if
al-Qaïda of the Amazing Aircraft
were vegetarian non-breeders
I'd join them.

But then I remember that a certain
Adolf Schicklgruber Hitler
was a vegetarian non-breeder...














'There are no good guys.'

A short ride in a fast machine

click here for story and video

If thoughts ever

become clear in the
clogged sewers of our brains
we will have become mere
processing-plants.

Truth

is ambiguity.
It mocks.
The greatest truth
is paradox

and cocks
love other cocks.

Still-life with reflection

The least of our crimes against Nature

is the sensory deprivation
and boredom of domestic animals
unto dullness, depression
and death.

"Day unto day

uttereth speech,
and night unto night showeth knowledge"
- Psalm 19:2

A kind of lampshade, skin
over skeleton, I glow
from the softness of
your passion
moon-fashion
and not inflamed
by man's mean fury
his insane and mere complexity

Feel! I festoon
your labyrinthine, abracadabrantine stair
with a sub-luminary softening
that cannot come from ordinary light

That rare and velvet
darkening
is a kind of kind shadow-flare
that makes us both aware
of the sheer simplicity of sanity
Deep in the sewer,
the brain's profanity,
hearkening
to each other's heart,
we perform the elegant and touching rite.

Television

Not the Black
nor the White
but the Bright Death
of Difference -

the seductive, hypnotic
meta-holocaust.

Minotaouranos

Expensive and poor,

religion is just
an expensive and poor
substitute for simple
or animal connection.

America

Dreams
are oracles
that few can interpret;
but fantasies
are desperate.

"The land of the free"

is one of only a few
from which the poorest
cannot escape.

Which is why
there are no American
refugees.

The only time

that I like civilisation
is when I am confronted
by its ruins
and its ruin.

Trees

give more than they take.
Is that why we cut them down
instead of worshipping them ?

We don't say

'Beware of Trojans bearing gifts',
since almost all of them were slaughtered
except Æneas, his father,
and some anonymous others.

The Trojan horse
was Greek, of course.

In the afterlife

everything goes very
very slowly
because we are still
very old.

This is excellent in orgies
but not so good
in offices.

George W. Bush was quite right :

there is no word in French
(or any other language, except Japanese
which uses the same word in the same way)
that corresponds with the English word
entrepreneur.

Entreprise in French means 'business',
and un entrepreneur is anyone
who does a job for money or reward.

(This, of course is neither an apophthegm
nor a poem.)

Civilisation :

the war against the longing
it creates.

Who

would not be wiser
if s/he had a
frugaliser ?

click here to learn more

Switzerland

Just reversing the colours
of a flag does not diminish
your insanely profitable crimes.

Francis

For the rich
the rarest luxury
is poverty.

from the Library of Zion

The most prized
bookmarks in history
would have been manufactured
from the undecayed
pressed foreskins
of leadingNazis.
But few or none were made.

'Love'

is the most expensive way
to learn humility.

The Thief of Time

I so look forward
to my suicide.
But when and where
I can't decide.

Click on the image to read the poem

Most information

is useless
(if not dangerous)
without the information
to inform it.

And so it goes...

Man was ever cursed

with
too much imagination,
not enough empathy.

Superlative

(inspired by Orhan Veli)

FOR ANGELOS PETROUTSAS

I love thin hairy bearded men,
I also love hunky working men
and sexy men on the dole
(I'd make the latter piles of toast) -
but I love thin, hunky, working-but-
unemployed, bearded men the most.

Ergmadromic

football's
goal-driven skill
displays the spoiled infantilism
of the European will.