Who Knew That Cupboard Love Was So Toxic?

Cain slew Abel out of cupboard love;
Cain wanted God to love him alone.

He lived a long time to receive
the love that he had earned, after.  

As The Unintentional Hypocrite Says

Because whilst new writing will include blogs,
life reading away from the screen matters also.
Life away from the screen, with books, with people'
or in the garden and the open air are ready antidotes
 to being sat still and facing the screen, tapping away
for others to read what has been written.  

Usury: A Definition

The ancient and modern hymn to Mammon
that was well known of old
where it was written of, disapprovingly.

But since the fourteenth century
the interest in it has made it
the raising agent of modern Capitalism
where it is popular for dividing society,
between those who have accumulated wealth
and those prefer more authentic relationships.

Unemployment; The Advertisement

For a longer life
and a clearer skin,
with lower stress, try new!

long term unemployment.

As best used by monks and mendicants*.

*Note it may also be used by princesses
and the idle rich, who have others manage
their money for them, but to lesser effect. 

Domestic Asylum

In the age of television
representing Capitalism
the well groomed, self made, rich
pay one another ever more
than before to be seen on the screen
by the poor, who are at home,
quietly delousing each other.

That is how sanitoria
used to be run for profit.
Who wants to be an exhibit
in their own asylum?


P.s. The White Dot Society, the UK organisation committed
to persuading people to turn their televisions off, is still
alive in the age of the internet. Read more about it here.

Animal Life

Believing in the sentience of elephants
is better than believing in elephant gods.

Whatever the fantasy the deity 'tells you'

it is as nothing with knowing the tenderness
and intelligence of that actual animal.  

'The Elegance Of Failure vs The Pride In 'Achievement'

'To fail elegantly is a greater success
than to have to succeed
and never have to admit to failure.
In your élan you will learn more
about yourself and know yourself
beyond the definition of others...
your self-definition will shape
how others see you...  that is why
failure is more successful than success.'
 - Quentin Crisp

Binary Thinking

Jews pray 'Hear O Israel
the Lord is our God
the Lord is one',

Scientists prove
to destruction
that their god is none.

Humanity is the agent
of both deities.

Getting Ahead Of Ourselves Through Tecchnology

My elderly laptop
tells me each time
it starts, that I am
'in touch with tomorrow'.

I would feel better if I knew
I was firmly in touch with today.

For A Quieter Strength....

I very much admire people
who complain about their tiredness
for the strength in their complaint.
I often wonder, if they felt the strength
with which they complained would they be quieter? 

The Not-For-Profit Family Life

In zero gain,
frigid, family values
profit matches loss,
goading children
into futile futures.

The Quiet House

The clock ticks,
the tap drips,
each at different speeds to the other.

Two friends sit apart,
both absorbed in private musings.

Putting The 'Demos' Into Democracy

Party Politics always breathes better
when it is infused with the oxygen
of popular protest.

Back room deals revealed 
long after the times they dealt with,
and tightly scripted P.R. appearances
where the speakers do not speak
for themselves wreak of the stale air
of  the unacknowledged need for renewal.

Groundhog Day Again?

Clichés often pass as banter,
verbal stroking. Rarely are they so.
They are more like Groundhog-Day.
Moaning with nothing else to do.

Better Self Esteem Through Hypocrisy

Therapy is the process
of losing the chips
on your shoulder
whilst removing
the sawdust in your eye.
Better self esteem
through hypocrisy. 

Matthew Ch 7 V 3

For A Longer Life....

A Mr Breuning of Montana died today,
when asked about his longevity
he advised 'Embrace change for a longer life'.
At 114 years old permanence embraced him.

Reassurance From Unexpected Quarters

The inconsistencies of others reassure me-
they help me feel calmer about my own.

Time Chooses Few

chooses few to be kind to, 

suffering is an integral to life.
But with the end,
time is infinitely generous.

Teaching The Unteachable

Happiness cannot be owned or taught.
Though many still try to teach it.
The nearest to good teaching
these teachers get with the subject
is that it is life beyond measure.

A Dog Was Asked

his opinion about The Credit Crunch.
He replied: The best investment is in biscuits.

For Sale On Ebay

-one old soul.
Has been only halfway to Hell
before coming back. Unwanted gift.
Needs careful restoration.
No reserve. Supplied with shadow.

Treasure Lives

where the heart lies.
Moth and rust
make honest dust.

Matthew ch.6 v.21.

In The Lift To Hell

the elevator music is purgatory.

For A Cleaner Suffering

When Hollywood
remakes the story of Job
the lead actor's teeth
will shine through the squalor,
as aptly as the happy ending.

Revolutionary Zeal

is angst for the future.
Youths express it best,
for not knowing
what has been-
or what is to come
when their angst passes.

Enlightenment Always Involves Tyranny

In The Enlightenment in the sixteenth century

the arts flowered, as we can still see today
but that was a small gain compared with loss
of reinventing slavery from it ancient world 
household origins  to it being remade
as a tyranny of hard labour for careless masters
in which those enslaved could never be freed, 
except through death, after which they were forgotten,

The Enlightenment was a blight
on the many sophisticated,
but primitive, societies
and it remains a stain on us. 

Moral Hygiene

When the language of moral hygiene
washes over our minds, when the purity
spoken of is not explained for what it means,
then it will shut down people's minds.

The best sense of moral health
requires a healthy sense of irony,
the better to understand immorality.
.

Advertising

is the new Evangelicalism;
never mind the message
just feel the enthusiasm.

Nature's Fly Tipping

Flowers will lodge their seed
in the tightest of places
to add their sense of colour 
to the most barren of landscapes;
nature's fly tipping.

Education In Feudal Times

Was not limited to preparing male youths to rule or to serve.
It was about preparing 'the fairer sex' in running the household,
and being skilled in the softer arts, embroidery and playing music
and the many other skills without which, even in feudal times,
a home was not a home, was not civilised. 

That what many women knew and did
in feudal times is now lost,
except to researchers of obscurities,
is more to our loss more than theirs.

It is as true now as it was then
that for life to be fit for sharing
that life had to look beyond 
the pursuit of power through conflict.