A Narrowing Sense Of Humour?

In the verbally chaste society
I was co-opted into
I enjoyed all the double entendes I heard,
they fed my weak sense of rebellion
which needed nurture if it was to live.

Now the older I get the more singular
the entendes have become
and as single entendes
they were mostly invitations
to some humourless sexual power-play
where the other player
has lied to themselves first
to make the lie more believable
when they shared them with me, later.

I am getting too old
to be cheaply misled
by shallow side shows. 

Excuses Are Like Memes

-they multiply when we are not looking
until they become such a blockage in our lives
we thought that we were leading (but we are not)
that we can't work out where they came from. 

The Advent Of Electric Light

On returning to church during Advent
and after one of my many disappointments
was finding out how many expressions
for light that were once church property
have now become the familiar patter
of modern day light bulb companies.