Please Don't Watch Television

Because if when television was analogue
it was primitive but seemingly addictive,
now it is digital with many more channels,
on which to show many more repeats,
than we can count, it is harder to navigate,
and much worse for our attention span.

 

 

Andy Warhol

put his heart and soul into his paintings.
He was a sickly man with a simple plan,
to be more creative with money
than he was in his art,
in which being slapdash
and making use of serendipity
was the height of his creativity.

He never knew how long
he did not have to live.

Democratic Politics

is like Religion-a good disguise
for turning altruism into selfishness,
whilst monetarising chaos through divide and rule.

That said, when elections are regular
and how our leaders are chosen
is half-worthy of trust
then those changes at least ensure
that the future will be made by mistakes
that we have not made in the past.
  

The English Vice:

wanting to be seen to be fair
whilst being selfish enough
to destroy the commensality
that ensures true fairness.

The Certainty Of Dogs

is 'Good News' for their owners.

'Love' Revealed Through Grace/Action

'Beauty without grace
is like a hook without the bait'-
Ralph Waldo Emerson

It seems that Mr Emerson was referring
to the grace in actions performed
within relationships, where the beauty
lay in the action more than the appearance
of the person performing the action.

Heresy;

the oldest form of 'free will'
that religion has 'allowed',
not that the heresy 
(or anything else in life)
is in any way unconditional.

'Adam' and 'Eve'

were the first heretics
and the founders of life,
which is why ever since,
long after the events,
orthodoxy has always been
pedantic, a comma here
a full stop there, and relative.