Circularity

It is easy to be ahead of the trend,
particularly when you have lived it before,
as a slightly different experience,
but you had forgotten. Then, accidentally,
you find that is coming around again... 

So That Is Why I Never Became A Parent...

I thought the fish would help the baby keep quiet and calm...

I Am Glad

I am just not very good at being an adult,
particularly when I know how much
they like telling children what to think,
not even how to think it, and discourage
being pressed to relearn for themselves.

My creativity is mostly for myself,
and is about being well disorganised.    

The Art Of Bad Listening

As a child I had strong feelings around ideas of defeat,
any relief that victory gave when it came was always brief.
Both sets of feelings were reinforced for going undiscussed
so naturally defeat stayed with me far longer than victory.
It took me decades to realise that so much of what I felt
came from living with people who listened very badly.
What I needed from them all was empathy,
what I got instead was others imposing solutions
for fear of themselves doing without. They made the fear
so ordinary that we did not know how deaf we were.

Now I have learned, I try to be aware and reasoned.
Whether people listen and acknowledge the same,
or listen and don't acknowledge me, covertly blank me,
I know to not care too much. Bad listeners are legion....

Follow The Money

First class lies are what we get from Politicians
when they insist that that should travel in luxury
as part of being seen to live well,
as they are the advert for their country.

The reality is that such luxury
 is a sign of the distance they like,
which in private they admit they need,
to keep away from the noise of those they lead.

They clearly fail to see how when these images
of being distant through travel go around the world,
others will misrepresent the country of their origin.

Thus our leaders become poster children for an immigration
they despise, because where the world poor see wealth abroad
they want to follow it, and will accept being pushed it's direction.
As it was, and is, in the way of all remittance economies....

On Friendship

If we can learn to be positively polite
to people we only sort-of like
then maybe our respect will deepen
for the people we ought to know better.

Ourselves....  

The Election Poster You Can Trust

because 'democracy is the least worst choice we have'-Winston Churchill