We’re all individuals
Cabbage White butterflies seem boring to me. All exactly the same in their looks and behaviour. But I guess they don’t seem like that to each other.
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poetry
3 am
Monsters in the cupboard? Or monsters under the bed? No, the monsters in my body set off the night fears now.
Great eggspectations
Every day, somewhere in the world, billions of birds sit on their nests, content and confident about the eggs that they cherish.
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Posterity
Alzheimer, Addison, Parkinson, I’d hate to be remembered as the name of a horrible disease. Though it might be better than not to be remembered for anything.
Chain of command
Religion is not just the following of imaginary beings but the following of people who are following the people who claim to know what an imaginary being will want.
Decay rate
Things fall apart the centre will not hold. Nor will the stomach, lungs brain, feet, liver back, kidneys, skin, or any other of my organs.
Fresh air
I was not aware of taking my first breath and I will not be aware of my last, but all the others were precious.
Religion is
Being told there is an invisible being who wants all your money by a man who claims he has been chosen to guard all that money.
Brief shining hours
Looking back, corridors of my mind are lined with all of the people I have known at length or briefly, and I can see again, like an old movie, with pleasure or pain, in whole films or single frames, all of their faces as they once were.
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