Scratch And Sniff

I have used the 'like' button on facebook
when it seemed fit, never on cheap adverts.
Nor on what seemed suspiciously like fishing sites,
though I took them as part of the nature of the 'net.
A place where nobody could never quite be sure, of anything.

But now I look more carefully and 'like' less,
and prefer to think that the if dogs ran facebook
then the 'like' sign would be a raised dog leg,
a dislike sign would be an icon of a cat
(since that was who the offering was fit for)
and the deepest approval would be shown
by the biggest and the blackest of twitching noses.... 

Thought For Good Friday

History is the meal
where we eat the baby
and drink the bathwater
which the baby arrived in,
all the while feeling
that the meal lacked flavour,
for us not separating the two.   

Art For The Spring to Come

'Twilight Moon'-Charlie Burchfield 1916

In Machine Party Poltics

The the only principle that outdoes
the vanity of the many party leaders
is the legal criminality of their fixers
in ensuring the credulity of their followers. 

X Marks The Spot

Crude majorities
produce flattened democracies,
where the media debate (such as it is)
is that nobody remembers anything
after the politicians decide everything
-particularly where the public put their X.

The Ultimate Phobia?

'Islamophobia' and 'Homophobia'
are two terms among many
whose very trendiness
I struggle to comprehend.

The ultimate phobia comes
from cursing someone as 'stupid',
and making an ineptly performed deed
the sum of of the person.

There we act out our fear
of rational argument by ignoring
the differences between people
which multiply the diversity of life.

To curse and do down the intelligence of another
is to reduce your own to brute insensitivity,
and to increase the burden the other carries
so that it includes your contempt.

Such contempt is a living death wish.

Some Headaches

will last longer than others,
and they will make you feel worse
than other unavoidable life-long conditions.