Life At Different Speeds

For the old time slows time down,
the future goes on 'hold';
you can sense it in their stillness.
That sense of  slowness
should be a natural part of every community,
rather than them being hived off into 'care homes'
where their health is slowly frozen for further profit.

Care homes are luxury workhouses;
the occupants do not escape alive-
their 'care' squeezes life
too thin to be measured.  

The Pizza Effect

is the name for how much an idea changes
as it changes location, as long as the ingredients
remain the same. What gets a thing accepted
is a lack of discernment because of reduced choice.

Blacking Up

Domestic politics is the pot telling the kettle
that the kettle is blacker than the pot
without providing the proof to black it up.

The Rain Falls

on the pious and the impious,
and after they have been broadcast,
we all forget the hourly weather forecasts.
They have no currency.
But if money fell as randomly as rain,
the predictions about whose pockets
wealth liked to land would be watched,
avidly, and well remembered.
From region to region this measurement
of weather-as-wealth would double as an
account for human neurosis about diversity.