Who Knew That Cupboard Love Was So Toxic?

Cain slew Abel out of cupboard love;
Cain wanted God to love him alone.

He lived a long time to receive
the love that he had earned, after.  

As The Unintentional Hypocrite Says

Because whilst new writing will include blogs,
life reading away from the screen matters also.
Life away from the screen, with books, with people'
or in the garden and the open air are ready antidotes
 to being sat still and facing the screen, tapping away
for others to read what has been written.  

Usury: A Definition

The ancient and modern hymn to Mammon
that was well known of old
where it was written of, disapprovingly.

But since the fourteenth century
the interest in it has made it
the raising agent of modern Capitalism
where it is popular for dividing society,
between those who have accumulated wealth
and those prefer more authentic relationships.

Unemployment; The Advertisement

For a longer life
and a clearer skin,
with lower stress, try new!

long term unemployment.

As best used by monks and mendicants*.

*Note it may also be used by princesses
and the idle rich, who have others manage
their money for them, but to lesser effect. 

Domestic Asylum

In the age of television
representing Capitalism
the well groomed, self made, rich
pay one another ever more
than before to be seen on the screen
by the poor, who are at home,
quietly delousing each other.

That is how sanitoria
used to be run for profit.
Who wants to be an exhibit
in their own asylum?


P.s. The White Dot Society, the UK organisation committed
to persuading people to turn their televisions off, is still
alive in the age of the internet. Read more about it here.

Animal Life

Believing in the sentience of elephants
is better than believing in elephant gods.

Whatever the fantasy the deity 'tells you'

it is as nothing with knowing the tenderness
and intelligence of that actual animal.  

'The Elegance Of Failure vs The Pride In 'Achievement'

'To fail elegantly is a greater success
than to have to succeed
and never have to admit to failure.
In your élan you will learn more
about yourself and know yourself
beyond the definition of others...
your self-definition will shape
how others see you...  that is why
failure is more successful than success.'
 - Quentin Crisp