A God Is For Life, Not For Christmas

Because dogs are all year round creatures
and when we are so highly seasonal
we are so far from being reasonable. 

When Cleanliness Is Next To Personal Honesty

Excuses are like arse holes-we would be lacking without them.

The best we can hope for is that they are clean and fine,
and clear of the smell of self pity; an odour that others 
will recognise and distance themselves from before
the carrier realises why they are kept at the distance they are.  
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Between Lust And Tenderness

Philip Larking wrote
'To be honest in sex is to be tender,
to be tender is not to be lustful,
then clearly, between tenderness
and lust, a large gap remains
to be bridged. I won't say
'It Doesn't Matter', but it is
all a question of luck, isn't it?'

from his posthumously published
correspondence 'Letters to Monica'

Over-Competitiveness Explained

Suicide, even when it is attempted and failed,
is the subject of conversation we dare not have.

It is 'too uncompetitive' a subject to discuss,
particularly when we deny how much the planet
should fight back harder to reduce human numbers

to give the co-dependence of the non-human species 

that remain on the planet even half a chance of survival.

There Is A Heartache Following Me

Despair deferred by materialism
is not the hope it presents itself as.
Instead it depletes the world

as the heart sickens and aches
more quietly than before.

Aim Here for Maximum Impact on The Future

To make the change you want to make,
whether your change is for good or for ill.
Nowhere else is going to have as much impact.

Looking Forward to When We Won't Be Able To See Back

But then again a beneficiary of industry
with enough hindsight might point out
to an agriculturalist how 10,000 years
earlier their culture supplanted hunter
/gatherer societies which with their modest
numbers always left the world a rich place
and how much agriculture quenched that.