Licence To Misrule

Gambling, drink and whoring
are the three pillars of absentee patriarchy,
where the more the wife and the children
are confined to the home the less they know
about what a man does outside the home,
where the errant man has his full licence,
.

Given a Choice of Uninvited Guest

I would choose
in order of preference
1)spiders 

2)woodlice 

3)mice
4)rats 

5)burglars
6)teenage vandals.

I forgive the mess that animals make
much more readily than the mindless
avarice of human beings.

Empathy Is....

click  on it to make it bigger

Hospitals And Care Homes,

with their advanced care for the elderly,
exist to take the heroism out of death
and blunt the sharpness of grief.

Love And It's Exits

'It is always possible to bind
together a considerable number
of people in love, so long
as there are other people left over
to receive the manifestations
of their aggression.' - Sigmund Freud

In Heaven

Everyone present except the host
is a happy parasite, put there
by a naturalising but alien grace.

Noblesse Oblige

If anyone should see the fires of Hell,

as a viable eternity, their first consideration
should be their own aptness for being sent there

in the next life, for how fitting they thought it

fit for others would do well there, 
and think first of who would send them
there, beyond any human agent.