........................................................................................ - a weBlog by Snowy and me.

Thursday, 7 July 2011

How Much Is Enough To Preserve Us?

The choices of the poor are limiting,
and hard to own as spurs to generosity.
But their choices are still more generous
within their limits than the luxuria of the rich.

Wednesday, 6 July 2011

History Is The Immurement

of the great and good by time,
through their deeds being mis-described
and where they are remembered at all
the deeds of the good are attributed to others.

Tuesday, 5 July 2011

Homo Erectus

is one of many forms of life before modern man
and there were many many phases before that,
from fish that swam to fish adapted to dry land. 
In his adapted form modern man is such a creature
of nostalgia for a past that he cannot remember
that he misunderstands how much he wants return,
not just being the fish that survived out of the water
but the fish who made the waters nearer, with global warming.

Monday, 4 July 2011

Ninmby-ism Starts Here

Good neighbours the world over
usually agree, how un-neighbourly
life outside them seems to be.

Sunday, 3 July 2011

The Sky Is The Limit With The Holiday Blues

Oddly enough my dad never had a car
and never drove, and never took us anywhere.
Now I know what I was missing... 

Saturday, 2 July 2011

In Ancient Times

Summer was when men took up war.
In peacetimes Summer is the time to riot,
march, or prepare a pageant.

Testosterone needs public ritual
to remain constant, ask Northern Ireland.

Friday, 1 July 2011

The Half And Half Of International Charity

multinational charities must be either 

1)agreeably corrupt for the hierarchy
required to run them to work with
the rulers of the host country they work in,

or 2)benignly unaware of the terminal contradictions
within their mission statement for them to be able to continue.

For a charity to be even half effective in it's aims
it has to be less than half corrupt and not know it.