Which Book Gives You Directions?

Whether your destination
is The Imitation of Christ,
or The Cloud Of Unknowing,
it is important to believe
that you know where you are going.

Rock and Roll Is So Not What It Used To Be

'This one switches on  my electric blanket back home in Finchley.
You need your creature comforts when you are my age...  '

What's Your Poison?

A saint writes 'Resentment is like taking poison
and hoping the other person will die'-Saint Augustine.

The unfortunate thing is it does work,
and works best when the poisoned-by-proxy
don't die, but go on to lead reduced lives
as a result of other peoples intake.
  

The Generosity Of Scientific Publishing

All talk and writing of genes 'being selfish'
is surely empty rhetoric, given the generosity
required by the media and the publishing industry
to get the message of such 'genetic selfishness'
out to a public who see the generosity in the message.
If the public had to reason that genes were that mean,
they would expect the genes to be
secretive about it towards the scientists.

The University of Life

He was a luckier man
then he knew he was
when he got away with it. 

Castles In The Air

'A neurotic is a man is a man 

who builds castles in the air,
a psychotic is a man who lives there.
A psychiatrist is the man
who collects the rent.'.
-Dr Anthony Clare

Each Night I Sleep

I hope to clean the bottom of the barrel
of what pains me, and feel rested.
Each morning I wake with the ache
and the sense there being more to scrape
and know the life that I have to look after.