Fifty years
since
Easy Rider?
Not been
such an
easy ride,
has it?
Category: History
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?
Sapience
Religion
is the proof
you can get
human beings
to believe
any nonsense;
Science is the
proof that
you can’t
Whale Killers
Just when you think
the Japanese are
becoming more
civilised
the harpoons
come out of
storage and the
seas boil with
blood again
Travel guide
A tourist leaves
a comfortable room
at home, travels
for hours, days,
uncomfortably
by plane, train,
bus, car, all
clothes stored
in suitcase, trying
to avoid being
robbed or mugged,
in order to reach
another comfortable room
in a place where they
don’t speak your
language.
Mirror, mirror
When I am gone
no mirror will
ever reflect
my face again.
Ageless
My old school
classmates are
all turning
seventy five
this year.
Not me,
I’m turning
seventy four
and I feel
oddly pleased
about this,
like setting a clock
an hour forward
and so gaining
time. And I
need to gain
all I can.
Fool me once
Ambition burned
white hot when
I was young, then
I lost it, discouraged,
then found it again,
then lost it,
then found it,
now, in old age,
thinking myself
safe, the old fraud
seems to have
appeared again.
That would explain it
Is Donald Trump
speaking
in tongues?
Justice
Some of my
friends die young,
all of my
enemies live to
a well-rewarded,
ripe old age,
it seems.
