How Do I Sign Up For This?

I don't know how much used men over 29 sell for,
or whether they recondition the men so that
they might occupy more positive positions
in any future society. But I would go in the shop
and ask about it if I knew when the shop opened.  

 

That New Year T-Shirt For The Tardy

Because for those of us who are slow 
on the uptake, anything and everything
'is nigh' but it is rare that something happens.
Nick Harper is a musician, here is his website. 

 

This Blog Is Taking A Long Break, Please Enjoy The Music

 This blog is taking a break. Presently the world of this blogger seems to be in is a long and continuous revised repeat of old themes with minor variations - to a slow and diminishing effect - much like the effect that the listener will discover from prolonged listening to the music presented here, of which there 11 hours in total.

  I'll be back eventually, in the meanwhile enjoy endure. I will.... 

Winter Greys

With Winter days being so grey
the length of the days matters less
and when nights fall seems insignificant
even though the days should be getting longer.

There seems to be little to enjoy outside anyway.  

Deceptive Appearances

should lead us to think twice about what we think
we see, to make sure we know what we are presented
 with. This page is from the book 'Fugitive Pieces'
a 1996 book by Canadian author Anne Michaels,
a dazzling read all the way through as it happens.  

 

It Takes All Torts, And Tortologies

Every time I receive a campaigning email
that chalks up another triumph for it's backers
against corporations in court battles
where rich anonymous shareholders
seek to destroy some particular part
of the ecology of the planet
for their own peculiar gain,
reading the email feels much less to me
like any sort of victory but a repeat of the past,
when similar battles were merely postponed,
in order for similar arguments to be set up
once again, for other, never ending court cases.       

The Fear Of Silence

 Is not new, and not even recent.

Since the earliest broadcasts,   
over a century ago,
the engineers of analogue radio
knew that broadcasting silence
was practically impossible;
the transmitter systems
would simply shut down
if they had no signal to carry.

What is less considered now,
and is how humans respond
to the immersive orgy
of information and choice
that is online, just waiting for us
in an infinite stream
or repetitious doom loop
that we have to learn to turn away from
if we are to be allowed to think clearly
and recognise each other.