'Never Divide The Dead'

Stalin said, of the Soviet victims of the Shoah,
denying survivors any sense of what they survived,
whilst he in his turn uprooted the many tribes
of the living from their lands they belonged to,
to further sustain his empire, beyond his lifetime.
Averaged out, he killed a million citizens a year
through out the twenty five years of his Czar-ship.

Thought For The Christmas Sales

Because whilst the shops fill with tat to buy
to 'celebrate', we still have to explain why
our planet is dying, before it explains
it's forthcoming exit, taking us with it,
with weather we can't deny is toxic.

Easy Steps To Avoid

The road to Hell
starts with the path
of least resistance.

Like every other journey,
it starts with the first step.
Unlike other journeys it gets easier....

'It's Wasn't Me, It Was Them Others... '

Family are the people we expect
to argue and fight with each other,
over how much more irresponsible
other people are, than they are.

Uncertain Endings

When prophets
tell of disaster due,
they never know the time
in which it will come true.

Edward Bernays Would Be Proud

of how today's media describe nation states
 in such triumphalist and existential terms
-particularly during currency crises.

The emotions that the journalists invoke
to describe their country deny the gravity
of the inhumanity with which we expect to win,

Steve Jobs

made the world a push-button place
for the worlds richest citizens.
For a time he made doing nothing more
than lifting a finger, get them further
than they had ever gone before.

His achievements and death
will mean nothing to the poor

-for whom the physicality of work,
food, and shelter always meant more
than they could put into language.