Concentration

We are the sum of our words;
when we say less we are more because of  it;
who we are is becomes more defined by our actions. 

Democracy In The Home?

Before certain television entertainments,
where violence is staged for the viewer's pleasure
there is always the strong spoken warning/request
that 'the following is arranged to entertain viewers
and is strictly not to be copied in the home.'.

With all the dazzle and misinformation
how long will it be before such warnings
become a neccesity before the daily news
which briefs us about the the next U.S. Election?

The Pyrrhic Triumph Of Technology

Humans are the agents of global warming.

We shrank the ozone layer  
because we thought the planet
was a rocket with a destination,
rather than a place for ourselves
and other creatures to be left to be.

Since then the market has moved on
from burning all the fossil fuels
that can be found at the right price
and with cheap labour.
But still it wants to help;
with the increased heat
coming through the gap in the ozone,
and before all life becomes extinct,
human beings are being cajoled
to see in the future with solar panels.

Markets have always been about managing myopia.  

This Blog Is Going On A Holiday

Please enjoy the interval music, at your leisure and repeatedly....

Lessons In Avoidance?

As school pupils how were we meant
to separate the crude authoritariansim
that was rife throughout all of society
(including systems of education)
from the free access to the information
that leads to choice and self knowledge?

Existential Threat

Given time he might also explain how the comforts money brings can rob life of meaning, thus he is selflessly sacrificing his own life and enriching hers by making her bank and her work poorer.... 

Only Dimly

did I understand the phrase 'friends with benefits',
and by then I was past middle age. By then I was old enough
to look back at what the phrase might have meant in my youth
when the benefits were secretive; hostilities smuggled through sex
where every man and all of their acts seemed alike in nature.
They made unfriendliness as normal as insobriety.

I never knew that I was being distant, or how secretive I was
from those in every day life who really tried to be my real friends,
but in whom I could never confide or unburden the weight upon me.

Now I know the best friendship and the best benefits
are much nearer sharing a good meal, a laugh. And honesty.