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.
science
Justice
Some of my friends die young, all of my enemies live to a well-rewarded, ripe old age, it seems.
The fire this time
The smell of smoke from distant burning forests, fired on purpose, assaults my lungs and my peace of mind.
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The Sun also rises in the East
Nothing is certain in this world except death, taxes, and the absolute certainty that when things seem to be going well, somewhere on the planet, religion will bugger it up.
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Need more time
Two Spinebills chasing each other through the Salvia flowers, trying to evolve into Australian hummingbirds
Great-great-great….
It is somehow a comfort to me to know that my ancestry goes back not two hundred years but two billion. How could it not be?
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Biggest losers
The Human Race is in a reality show whose aim is to discover its most stupid members and for which there are no prizes.