The Arab Spring

is an idea cooked up by the Western media
to summarise protest from across 'the developing world'.
Due to both western disinterest and local censorship
the backlash against this protest has been poorly reported.
But now it can be made plain, in the many sects of Islam
homosexuality, like women's sexuality, is a powerful cause
for shame, since both threaten the myth of The Absolute Patriarch
by undermining him and all men from underneath by doing as they will.
It is perhaps inevitable then that the Islamic Military Police
choose the sexual abuse of arrested protesters of both genders
as their weapon of choice. The silent vacuum that follows the shame
follows sexual abuse is self compounding and definitively destroys
the individual's resistance to the state, and spreads the fear of arrest.
Thus the sexual abuse of protesters of all genders comes to justify,
and perfectly embody, the democratic deficit preferred by all-male oligarchies.

Might Can Learn How It Is Wrong

and still  find impossible to discover what is right.

An Artist Contemplates The Luxury Of Solitude

and goes against the majority view of how consumerism
increases exponentially through 'community' and cohabitation. 

Gustave Flaubert Meditates On Writing

and finds that it is more fun getting lost in punctuation. 

If Only We Could Make Chickens Talk And Be Computer Literate

Then employers could pay them in chicken feed to work
 in call centres instead of laying eggs, and increase human indolence.

Then employers would call it progress, for effortlessly
raising the chickens' social status, and reducing their
suffering, by changing as little as humanly possible.

Why Good Poetry Is 'Unpopular'

and  the attempted refreshments
of pre-recorded music, video,
and prose, are always short term.

'A grain of poetry is suffice
to season a century'-Jose Marti

The 1980s Explained

and that is without quoting John Wesley to cover up
 the capitalist dynamics of  redistribution upward to the few.