The Monologues Of The Deaf

are meant to sound like a conversation,
whilst disguising a lack of observation.

It's Okay

Where simplicity gets more self-deceiving
is when we believe that living 
at nearer subsistence levels,
compared with those around us,
is somehow 'preserving the planet'
when it it is still dying all around us. 

 

All The Lonely People?

If anyone tried to write
another 'Eleanor Rigby'
they simply could not, the song
would come out all wrong.

However good the tune
and tight the arrangement, 
the song could never strike the note
of near universal recognition
that the original found in it's time.

Since that song was written
loneliness has been moved on.
It has been crowded out
by websites like the one
that you are reading this on
where we are in it together,
even as each of us is alone.

Our loneliness becomes our vocation
fit to be shared with the nations
of likeminded absent souls.

Mordant Danish humourist Victor Borge
used to say about the effect of his performances
'The shortest distance between two people is a smile'.

Now people don't meet, and have little to say
when they pass each other in the street.
The shortest distance between two people
is from your screen and keyboard to mine,
something I sit down at home and wait for.

Diary Of A Lost Person

When I went online I was reminded
that the main thing that the internet
is meant to do is bring out the sense
of play for those who go onto it. 

Where did I go to play when I realised I should?
I asked Google 'Does Franz Kafka have a homepage?'
Well reader, yes he does. Find it here for some serious fun. 

Great Films of The Twentieth Century-Koyaanisqatsi

 

When A Liar Speaks

How much they convince their hearers
is less a matter of bigness, though that helps,
and more a matter of the speed with which
the high flown rhetoric passes over it's audience.

When the rhetoric is properly examined,
any listener would soon discover
how much it is arrant nonsense.

But because the message travels so fast,
over the heads of  too many people,
the collective resistance is hard to find,
where they can all be critical enough
to break down what tries to bind them.

Picture Set Of The Month - November - 'At The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier'

The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier, The Arc de Triumph
in Paris, inaugurated 11th November 1920, along with
a similar memorial in Westminster Abbey, London.      

The statue Landsoldaten (The Foot Soldier)
by sculptor Herman Wilhelm Bissen is located
in Fredericia, Denmark.

'The Tomb of The Unknown Soldier,
at Westminster Abbey. The idea for the monument
dates from 1916, from Army Chaplain David Railton.
It was realised by November 1920, along with
it's French equivalent at the Arc de Triumph.
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The National War Memorial, Ottowa, Canada
which was dedicated in 1939, and in front of it
The Tomb of the Unknown Soldier inaugurated
in May 2000 and kept guard over ever since.
  

Arlington USA, one of five monuments
'to the unknown soldier' in America,
this memorial was completed Nov 11th 1921.
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