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Thursday, December 05, 2019

Going about their business


Some people might think
If you see some celebrity or public figure
By chance (?)
Three times or more
In odd places
Out in the real world
Outside of a screen
Just going about their business
That it means something
That it's a message
A call to action
A call to act
What would you do?
What would you do with that thought?

Tuesday, November 12, 2019

Economics


In the school of economics
Things are seldom comic
Things seldom make sense
There's cause and consequence
But no clear explanation
Theories and equations
Factors, actors and detractors.
Oh yes.
Substance is lacking
You need fiscal backing
Relentlessly attacking
Other schools of thought
You see ...
Economics can be bought.

Sunday, October 27, 2019

Triptych

The Holy Spirit moved across the earth, across the waters and through the ether. That was about all he could manage. It had been a tough assignment.

In the jungle, the mighty jungle, the Virgin Mary sleeps tonight. She had no memory of the previous day nor had any flashbacks (yet).

Having done his "job" he moves on and does other things. He does not have a robust span of attention it seems. Eyes all seeing, ears all hearing and a dark brown voice with a contemporary  Middle Eastern tone to it.


Tuesday, October 08, 2019

Without thinking


Walking down the sides of tall buildings
In a single bound
Faster than speed
Darker than a bullet
The dawning of the age
As a spider moves across a wall

Yonder snow capped peaks can't speak

Before yesterday was another day
There always was tomorrow
It brought comic strips and impossibility
Very straight lines and talk
Noiseless words describing noise

Where the buffalo roamed

We imported that other culture
Misappropriated it and all their deeds
Killed the hostages and bought fresh slaves
Piled gold into limousines
And planned a better future

All without thinking about what we were actually doing.


Saturday, September 28, 2019

Moody


Moody Cafe

From a table
interior 
looking out
 light comes in 
traffic and blur 
wedding guests
 shoppers
 pavement hoppers
 hawkers
 apple juice
 gallery 
Saturday
lunch.

Sunday, September 22, 2019

Pizza V Timewarp




Intergalactic pizza with fruit





Here are a series of words: Some roads are bright coloured roads. Some roads are black and white. Monochrome. Painfully coloured. Darkened by plain tones. Mixed in places. The plain meets the tones. Here and there. On the borders. Where they mingle. Intergalactic. Inner.

Thursday, September 19, 2019

Monday, September 16, 2019

Number two


...in an occasional series.

Wild sea

Here's a picture I created
Called "the wild sea"
Far away from me
but still it surrounds
space - water - time
from a safe distance.

Breakfast


Here's a breakfast I made, earlier.

Now it's a flash in the pan,
a mark in the dishwasher,
debris in the bin.

Some say waste is a sin,
but not the kind of sin or thing,
the excludes you, or eludes you,
separates you, makes you,
look a fool.

Then I reflected.

The eggs have eyes,
well that's where the thinking began,
that turned me into a vegan.

I didn't even think about the bacon.

Saturday, June 15, 2019

About time


"Why should I of all people believe in the words of the Buddha? Why should I follow his teachings? There is no peace, no occasional rest, no respite.  I have seen things but they are in the past so what is the point in searching for justice? We are all in constant crisis." 

These are some things I said, they are things I may have meant at the time. Now I'm not so sure. I'm not even sure if I ever said them. It may be that you said them all along, throwing your voice, closing out my thoughts with some bombastic forces that I couldn't counter. I may have been weak. You cannot hang a man for that.


I wasn't sure what was really going on. I was unsighted for a moment. It was all a bit chaotic. I could however sense the disapproval. We had crossed some kind of line, broken away, travelled through. There was a new space and place before. Perhaps there was a breach in the space/time continuum anyway. I'll probably never know. All I can recall was that her nose seemed to grow, her features became sharper and the grasp of her hand stronger. I read later in a lengthy footnote that this kind of thing was to be expected. I did feel judged however.


So those great blocks of concrete closed in around us. The daylight became a precious thing. The size and the bulk was overwhelming. It took courage just to look up, to lift our eyes from the flickering screens, to watch as the heavy air descended upon us. There were cracks in their lungs. Those others in the gloomy dark. The air was like some heavenly poison, too much, too late, too soon for any redemption. After a struggle with myself I found the door and walked out alone. I didn't look back. That would have been the right thing to do but the time was wrong. In the end it's all about time.

Saturday, June 08, 2019

Trees walking


One day, quite by chance, the trees came to life. Of course the trees were already alive so when I say that they came to life I mean that they developed movements, animal attributes and what seemed to be consciousness, at a low level. Funnily enough I was the only one who was aware of it. Others couldn't see it. I tried to explain but well, you know how these things are. So as for the trees, they turned out to be reasonably peaceful, perhaps not fully aware of what people had done to them and happy to be poking about in the woods (?). How they were used as a raw material etc. might bother them if they ever find out. They were a bit like cows. I often think of how that first occurred to me. "These trees are alive now, fully alive, but really they are like big. wooden cattle with leaves and bark so there's no need to be afraid unless they learn anger". Once I'd come to this point I relaxed a bit. The trees would mostly be OK but there may be some upsets if they ever get to understand human history but that hasn't happened yet even with cows so we could be all fine albeit forestry is going to be a little more complicated now that the trees are moving around. I considered reading them the chapters from Lord of the Rings referring to the Ents but then decided that might be a bad idea as it might give them good ideas. We'll have to wait and see what happens next.