You Too Can Find Your Inner 14 Year Old (2)

Long before the age of video games teenage males had to find places

well away from home and family for certain personal energies/drives.

Half And Half

Going to the Belfast 'Gay Pride Festival'
yesterday for the umpteenth time
in as many years I was struck afresh
by how universal it is that all pride
is half continually miscarried aspiration,
and half the vacuum created by the hot air
of false words inhabiting a false atmosphere.
The most wholesome thought that the event
gave me was that if as seems to be the case-
we all have less to say than we think-
then we should say it quietly, and to ourselves first.
Let good actions speak more clearly for themselves.