No Wolves In The Cosmos

Man finds the likeness of dogs and bears,
and many other creatures, in the stars.
And sometimes he sees the agrarian economy.

But as far as any human eye has seen
the sky at night has no arrangement of lights
that reminds him of wolf packs at play...

How unimaginative of man
to leave wolves unremembered
as their many species decline in the earth
and humans spread, like nuclear waste.

Why can't one apex predator
find in the night skies
the memorial to another
(healthier) leader of the planet?     

I Remember Youth Training

very well and not just for how naive I had to be,
for me to accept it without any sign of resistance.
But more for how it was adults controlling us
whilst investing in yesteryear's skills and hierarchies
the better for the adults to kid us we were grown ups
and get the last possible use out of what they knew
would soon be obsolete, whilst leaving the young
unprepared for any real future that would beset them.

Never And Never

Never judge a book
by the movie it is turned into,
and never judge a film
by the book it is sourced from.

Even when different materials share a title
all similarity in content is merely coincidental
and should never be taken at face value.
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String Theory

Humans think that life is short,
but it is as long as the strings
on which their hopes are dangled
right in front of them, where they try
to deny their irrationality.    

Passivity Revised For Modern Consumption

Before the days of a television in every home
films were 'Life with the boring bits removed',
the edited highlights of a made up life write large
for the screen to keep the masses entertained.
How odd then that as we fast forward to the future
via the internet, what we get presented with is still life,
but with all the grit removed from the issues presented,
the more to help us to accept our singular passivity.   

A New Compound Noun

For an activity which I am given to believe is a rather popular... 

To Have Or Have Not

We live in a world where maturing children
are no more meant to understand their sexuality
than the poor are meant to genuinely aspire to wealth,
In both rules reinforce a deference that is impossible
to sustain and difficult to break. Cover ups are inevitable
and they lead in equal measure to long histories
where the present is built on misreading the past
when small tragedies and collective denial ruled the day.