A sad truth: machines

are less disappointing
than people.

My present dog

on my future grave,

Saint-Antonin-Noble-Val, 29th March 2019.

Of course there is no 'energy crisis'.

We have a population crisis,
a waste and defecation crisis,
and a consumption crisis. 

           Now a film.

It pays the rent.

My friend, a fellow-Irishman
who lives in England
has found the perfect part-time job
for a misanthrope without ambition
as shelver of books in the library
of an emporium of erudition.

Vivre heureux, c'est vivre caché. (French proverb)*

Having always been unemployed,
my life has mainly been
(and continues to be)
immersions in remarkable books,
of which there are hundreds
- though I always skipped over the sex-scenes,
which made the Marquis de Sade
very easy to read.

*To be happy, stay under the radar.

It's mildly amusing

that, in the old days,
people were instructed to say cheese
in front of a camera
rather than leer.

Unrecognised.

One of the nastiest little phrases:
'When you were just a twinkle in your father's eye.'

"In some strange way

we devalue things 
as soon as we mention them."

- Maurice Maeterlinck, quoted by Robert Musil in his epigraph to Young Törless.(1906).

Existential.

The Fifth Quartet

The indecent din of poetry
can be relieved
only by the poetry of silence.

"...you’ve got to be a serious con-artist

just to get your basic needs met.”

- Sam Lypsyte, Hark (2019)

Shall I overstep the mark ?

In the Lap of Luxury

without TV
I endure Existential Angst
and Anomie.

Our only memorials

should be the trees
that we planted.

...

(from Facebook group 'The Warning Archive')

Onus of Entropy.

Anus of intellect.
Rebus of rationality.
I feel
that I'm sinking
slowly below
the weight of futility.

Another few words on

civilisation :
the progressive limitation
and regulation
of spontaneity.

Perfect, the planets

devoid of life.

The odd thing about monogamous 'heterosexuals'

is their tendency to fuck each others' wives.

Insanity in Franglais...

Another great epitaph :

'Really,
I don't know why I bothered living.'

Religion is

spiritual abuse.

God is

where the money is.

Muddy books -

because I often read
after planting or transplanting.

The world belongs to gamblers,

because the essence of capitalism
is not enterprise and trade
so much as gambling on the outcomes
of enterprise and trade.
And we are not afraid.

On his days-off

from ferrying the dead in silence
Charon spent his time
keeping an even keel
by trying to un-invent the wheel.

From sharp stones to smart phones

we are victims of our technologies
- but the planet a million times more so.

The Fall of Man

was language,
and poetry the sin of poets -
though the worst
and perhaps the best
remain unpublished.

Our brains jangle with words.
Language destroyed silence.

Revolutions are rarely Progressive (in either sense of the word)

The "Neolithic Revolution"
which brought us agriculture
merely allowed more humans to procreate
by herding them in camps
and villages, and towns, and cities,
and making them dependent on
un-nutritious carbohydrates,
rather as they are doing today
in obscene, grotesque pig-farms
in the USA.

Cave-men lived like kings

when other humans
sheltered in fragile huts
from pelting rain and snow
or sweltering sun
not so many thousand years ago.

So, possibly,
caves were the first
human spatial property...

The best sex scene in the history of cinema ?

Less than 10 seconds long.
No groans.
Just one line of speech:
"I think it slipped out."

And for other reasons also
I thoroughly recommend this film by Bong Joon-ho :
Memories of Murder.
which I acquired, as always, by Torrent/P2P

Fitting in

Getting on
Getting off on
getting on...

I just don't get it

on or off

though so far I've been
getting through

rather well and quietly

and appreciating my

continuing, rare,

beyond-compare

beyond-wealth luxury

of solitude and silence

(we are, of course, all islands)

I'm one of me
not one of you

The most efficient solution to 'global warming' :

genocide.

Following the wiping-out of 50 million (and more) native Americans
by Europeans and their diseases,
trees and shrubs grew on that continent,
carbon dioxide levels dropped world-wide,
and temperatures lowered - for a time.

I think however, that the killing (or suicide)
of fifty million humans might not be enough
this time round...

Beyond.

2018/9

Snowdrops on my grave.

Haiku

A winter dog-walk
The little bag of his turds
briefly warms my hand

Many men who chase women are actually misogynists.

And many men who chase men
don't like them at all, or only a little bit,
or are scared of them.

From the otherworld of statistics.

“92% of sex workers would stop if they had enough money.”

"99% of retail workers would leave if they had enough money."

"Y’all think janitors and service staff are showing up for a fun way to pass the time ?
I can guarantee at least 92% of workers in any industry would kick their own boss out of a fucking window and leave - given the chance. "

Ah, chance, the dance of chance...

- thanks to eduardo-.tumblr.com/ - a great blog with lots of fish.

It gets harder and harder to be poor in the rich countries.

www.theguardian.com/

If you don't know how to work a cocktail-shaker

don't perform this ludicrous (not to say insulting) test on yourself.

https://www.16personalities.com/free-personality-test

Almost a million Americans

are living illegally in Mexico.

How about a wall to keep them out ?

Most poetry is dire.

But if you find some utterances
that are not dire or dreary or facile or banal for you
(amongst the tens of thousands),
you could feel enhanced, or even improved
by them.
But it might not be worth the effort.

Those legendary Last Words.

“A nurse from the hospice told me 
that the last words of the dying tended to be the same: 
almost everyone calls for (or out to) their mother* with their last breath.”

- Hajo Schumacher in Der Spiegel.

*As a greeting ?

Only in Australia (?)

http://fickleprickles.com.au/sempervivum/196-sempervivum-hairy-balls.html

Kick Out The Rich

https://www.wakingtimes.com/2015/08/19/worlds-poorest-president
-explains-why-we-should-kick-rich-people-out-of-politics/

Posting (or posing ?) as a Parasite and Welfare-scrounger, Dependent of the Nanny State:

(Yes, I know I said that I would stop blogging, but Old Habits Die Hard
(as the Reverend Mother said to the KKK man), and A.K. posted this on her voluminous Facebook "Timeline"... so I couldn't resist 're-blogging'.

There is nothing quite so comforting

as being proved wrong.

« L'enfer, c'est les autres. » Hell is where we consign others - J-P Sartre.

" Mais « l'enfer c'est les autres » a été toujours mal compris. On a cru que je voulais dire par là que nos rapports avec les autres étaient toujours empoisonnés, que c'était toujours des rapports infernaux. Or, c'est tout autre chose que je veux dire. Je veux dire que si les rapports avec autrui sont tordus, viciés, alors l'autre ne peut être que l'enfer." - J-P Sartre.

Narbonne (Aude), église Saint-Paul.

http://www.philo5.com…/Sartre_L%27EnferC%27EstLesAutres.htm

Sisters - reclaim your body hair !

http://www.weirdhistorian.com/vivian-wheeler/

"We never fall twice into the same abyss.

 But we always fall the same way, in a mixture of ridicule and dread."

                       - Éric Vuillard, The Order of the Day.

Hell: Santa Maria d'Assunta, Fornovo di Taro (Parma), Italy.