500 years? A thousand?
There should be a term limit set on how long some ancient, historical grievance can be used to justify slaughtering people today.
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Age less
Reading the life stories of the famous achievers of the past and present, you reach a point where they broke through, became recognised, touched by genius, ranked among the immortals of literature, or science, or film, or art. But my breakthrough moments were papered over, muffled, erased from the historic photographs. So I remain disappointed
And don’t come back
Some days it can almost be a full time job, carefully removing spiders, insects, centipedes, and the occasional small lizard from the house they have somehow entered and then been unable to escape, like tiny burglars trapped by a deadlock.
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Cousins
I love it that I, distant descendant of a shrew, can hold, gently between my hands, a chicken, distant descendant of a dinosaur.
Hope fades
All over the Universe, the small number of sentient species, in a handful of galaxies, have given up hope for the survival of the almost sentient species, Homo sapiens, which currently lives on a small planet, near a small star, on the outer reaches of the Milky Way Galaxy.
Destroyer of Worlds
Does Bolsonaro not know that whatever remnant of the human race remains next century will curse his name in the same way that Hitler, Attilla, Genghis, Stalin, Pol Pot and Trump were cursed, or does he not care?
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Investment
The first thing to learn about stamp collecting is that nothing you own has any value. Also the last thing.
Three absent friends
Death by cancer is: being pushed to the lunch table in a wheel chair when cancer-riddled bones won’t support you; measuring your days in teaspoons of morphine, carefully counted; carrying a rubber cushion to pad the pelvis from which all flesh has melted.
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Definitions by example
“Religious cult” is a tautology; “Sustainable development” is an oxymoron.
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