Revolution
can never come
about by the
gentle
persuasion of
the ruling class
to give up the
benefits they
receive from
the current
system
Category: Bon mots
Age related
Any day now,
some day soon,
the young people
I see who are
nurses, shop
assistants, car
mechanics,
policemen; or
who are pushing
prams full of
crying babies, are
going to be old
enough to be
not my children,
not my grand children,
but my great
grandchildren.
The road taken
I took the road
less followed,
and found
land mines,
trolls, bandits,
potholes, mud
patches, fallen
trees, and then
my car broke
down. Next time
my way is the
highway.
Titled
Perhaps I
could call my
autobiography
“The Old Man
and the C”?
Definitions by example
“Religious cult”
is a tautology;
“Sustainable
development”
is an oxymoron.
Rock-a-bye baby
Let me get
this straight,
some people
think that telling
their baby that
while they are
asleep their cradle
will crash to the
ground when a
bough breaks
is a way of
getting them
to sleep?
I read the news today, oh boy!
Paul
McCartney
is seventy seven
and Ringo
Starr
is seventy nine?
Wait a minute.
I’ve lost fifty
years somewhere.
Anyone seen them?
What’s in a context?
It is passing
strange, is it not,
that celebrity
comments criticised
in the media
were always taken
out of context,
while those praised
were always
perfectly
in context.
Speak Strine
Never use two
syllables when
one will do;
never use three
syllables when
two will do;
never use four
syllables.
Mindquake
We need a
Richter scale
for major personal
events that
rattle our core,
shake our life,
leave fissures
in our psyche.
Sometimes we
can put books
back on our
mental shelves,
replace broken
windows, rebuild
fallen walls.
But sometimes
the mind is
left all out of
joint forever.
