Who Is Really Sorry?

When with their apologies
the rich and famous feel better
about their second apology
than felt about their first
where they knowingly crafted the first
with a knowing and thoughtless crassness?

Certainly not the public,
when the media
give the sloppiness a free pass
an quote and requote it verbatim.... 
 

In The Guilt Zone

there is no solution.
There inertia reigns
and feigns morality.

Retreating From Over-Reaction

I find it odd that all fundamentalism,
from the (r)evolutionary zeal of Richard Dawkins
down through consumerist Conservative Christianity
and primitive Islam, all back themselves up
with a great depth of rhetorical defensive bluster.
This is mode of speech, where the faith
is in power, and words create empty echo chambers
as a substitute for an inclusive public life.
They make systems that perpetuate
a false collective self that they can't see
and therefore can't turn off or retreat from.

The second oddity is how, in thrall to their own voice,
they fail to see that a similarly reactionary defence
becomes the most obvious way of retreating from them,
so they back each other up in a public mutual deafness.
Thus the main choice for the individual
who values the single self is to join in with the rhetoric
or retreat into an agnostic relative silence.

Eternity-The Perfume

The odor of sanctity for the devout who never doubt
 (nobody else needs to  wear it).