Sad that there are now
so many people who
take pride in their
ignorance, where once
it was a mark of a
human being to
take pride in
knowledge,
intelligence,
and
achievement.
Category: politics
No secret
The secret of success
is rich ancestors,
relatives in positions
of power, and a friend
who is a media baron
Naming names
Chamberlain
Caligula
Bush
Petain
Mugabe
Charles I
Nixon
Yeltsin
Hindenburg
Nicholas II
Abbott
George III
Akhenaten
Hirohito
Louis XVI
Pol Pot
Trump
Words words words
How many millions
of words have I
written?
Half a million in
one book alone,
other millions
scattered from one
end of my life to
the other.
It would be nice
to think one or two
will be remembered,
else why did I bother?
Certificates
The world seems
increasingly ruled
by people who are
certifiably insane.
But perhaps it
always was.
A man who is bored with the Universe
I think I’m
running out of
things to learn.
Or perhaps just
the desire
to do so
Pardoning turkeys
How could a
country whose taste
in media is built
on extreme
heart-warming
sentimentality
finish up with a
nasty arsehole
like Trump?
No room in the neurones
He who is
tired of learning
has been doing
it for seventy
three years and
needs to rest
Values
Once upon a time
the products of high
technology – pottery,
swords, carriages,
furniture, bicycles,
wireless sets – were
valued and
treasured; kept in
good repair for
many years, decades,
passed on
from generation to
generation. Now mobile
phones, ipads, tv sets, video
games, cars, houses
even, end up in landfill
after months, days,
hours sometimes.
Fly away
All of that effort
to raise a young Magpie –
sitting on eggs for weeks,
backwards and forwards
bringing beakfuls of
juicy worms and beetles,
ends as a sad bunch of
feathers smeared across
a busy road.
Much like children
in a war zone.
