Knowing Everything

Omniscience is given to so few,
none as far as I know-except in myth and fable.
But in so far as it is thought to exist
it seems to create more anger than sorrow.
When ignorance of unknown unknowns-
things which could not be known before they are revealed-
leads us so astray then a reflective calm would be the best response.
But for us humans that would be far is too costly course to follow.

The Dignity Of labour Vs The Comfort Of Ownership

Victorian society disputed long and hard about the worthy and unworthy poor.
Worth was supposed to be based on work. But however hard many worked
they were no more or less than sustainable loss-leaders to themselves
and cannon fodder for the gain of their employers, landlords and others
who owned the fixed assets which everyone was dependent upon.
These workers were the ones most worth any relief on offer,
but not for themselves. More for how helping them supported the owners
of the assets that everyone, the poor most of all, were dependent upon.
Thus poor relief was actually respite for the rich who were dependent on the poor, for their labour.

The unworthy poor were those who's loss-leader lives
were led solely for the profit of shadowy middle men,
land based pirates, who left the poor weak,
and insufficiently deferential to wealth to have any value in 'respected' society.

When The Currency Is Life

Some beggars are more ambitious than others.

Cancer Sells Newspapers

It would be churlish of me to think ill of those
who have fought and won against their cancers.
They have reason to thank a costly health service
and several legal tax avoiding multi-national drug corporations.
So I will be glad for the support that they have been given.
Glad too that they have 'come out' about outliving the disease
that threatened their life. But their victory is cheapened
by a media that solely quotes cancer sufferers declared fit
by the incompetents, heartlessly employed at far more
than the net value of their work, who's job is to declare
incapacitated benefits claimants newly fit for employment.
It is as if survivors of said illness were the only people
fit to be quoted when there are many other conditions
that prove a barrier to acceptance by the employers
who think only in terms of  'the survival of the fittest'.

Perhaps the press think cancer is truly 'middle class',
and like them it is the only socially acceptable disease.

Most Dirt,

like most beauty,
is only surface deep.

Our Home Is Not Yet A Tomb

But if everyone sins this much is true

-until we both die I’ll still have you.

Hell or no, we will rest from guilt,

when sleep would be best.

I will not worry about our grave,

if it should be cold or move.

When we go we'll go together.

Until then your home is next to me,

your eyes closed in our bed,

where our afterlife is near-

we dream about each other.

Prestbytairianism Explained

any of the above could make them jolly
 and hopeful for this life, rather the hereafter,
and possibly equal but different in virtue as well.
 But the ease for mistaking fear for faith is everywhere.