Putting The Lie Into 'Disbelief'

It takes a very special sort of insensitivity
to calculate the levels of public stupidity
to know when to stop short of telling them
one lie too many, telling the lie that they will see
for what it is and in their way call the liar out.

The next calculation then becomes
how to get the lies the leader told before,
which are now no longer safe,
credited to somebody, anybody, else.

When testing the credulity of the public
the politicians have to first become
willing guinea pigs for each other
before testing the strength of their lies
on the public who have to vote for them.

That is today's-and tomorrow's-Political Science.

World Leader Pretend

A universal lament about  political non-leadership
past and present by Irish left wing poet
 Francis Devine 

Reproduction

When 'moralists' seek to control those
they suppose to be weaker than themselves
by saying that sexual intimacy is dangerous,
those who are supposedly weaker presume
that the sex is where the dangers lives.

This is what makes want to live dangerously.

But the danger is less in the sexual activity in itself,
and much more in the lies that multiply around it.

Which is why the greatest truth lives in celibacy.

'All In All.....

....we're all just bricks in The Wall..... '

The Immoral Maze

My greatest problem with sex
was always that it promised me
that it was playful. Then it set goals
and made strict rules of engagement
which made retreat from them seem absurd
and following them impossible.

What was first offered as direct reward
became gratification with-held
and the got further redefined,
as the force behind everything else,
until everything became that indirect
that the rules became the guide
to how life should lack meaning. 

The Contrary Vocation

Being a pessimist is such a difficult vocation
-when we are right life seems rather sad, and bad
which makes our being wrong that positive
that other people wish were wrong more often.   

Great Failed Ideas Of Our Time (2)

I wanted to start a new self help group,
not for myself you must understand,
It was called 'Narcissists Anonymous'.
But it failed to gain the traction I'd hoped
with who were meant to attend it most.

Not enough other narcissists would join me.

Did they resist because their self admiration
remained enough for them in themselves?

Or did they fear that their new audience
might not be attentive enough of them,
for being more absorbed in themselves?

Or was it that their narcissism
told them that the idea of anonymity
left them with nothing to reflect on?

Who can tell which reason
for not wanting to share
their self absorption 
was the most authentic?