Upon Your House (A 21st Century Curse)
May the gold in your wallets Fill up, instead, With the tears of your victims – The innocent dead. . May each hate you give birth to Take one single tooth; And may you taste only blood With each mouthful you chew. . May each …
Humane Anatomy
Do you feel that? Do you feel it in your guts? Do you think you feel how others feel? Perhaps you feel – that you feel – too much. . Do you see it? Do you see the suffering? Do you shrug and say, “It’s …
The Path to Freedom
Condemned by all ‘Right-thinking’ folk – Yet he always seemed Such a nice, quiet bloke. . So many injured, So many dead. ‘Radicalised’, ‘mad loner’, The media have said. . Ties to this faction; Connections with that, On terror watch lists, But still managed to …
Basic Training
Did you care to know her story? Did you look into her eyes? Did you know that she was deeply loved? Could you care enough to learn why? . When your speeding, four-ounce hammer Powdered her living bone, Did you ever stop to wonder What …
Bon Appetit
The Jörmungandr Of the Capitalist, Consuming It’s own self. . The madness Of the profit-driven; The Century Of the Shelf.
Six-by-Four
I’m in love with a piece of nylon Red, white And blue. I’m a slave to it, Pray to it, Sold my soul to it, To know that I’m better Than you! . Red for the blood I would spill in its name; White …
Chilling Chat
At Oxford University, two tech design students intercepted a brief, spontaneous transmission between three devices left unattended in a room. What they deciphered gave a chilling insight into the whole ‘internet of things’ phenomenon. Detractors claim that this is clearly a hoax on the grounds …
Nurtured Natures
Five minutes before, they had pulled up in the narrow lane, about ten feet ahead of where I had parked, effectively blocking the road with their ‘plain’ 4×4. They emerged together – one plain-clothed, two in the usual semi-military accoutrements. They approached a young chap …
The Limitations of Statues
No. Don’t pin your ‘-isms’ on me. The only ‘-ism’ I would acknowledge, right now, is that of ‘pessim-‘. . Don’t assign me to one of your ‘wings’, either, thank-you-very-much. . You see, I grew wings of my own and they lift me enough to …
Dungeons & Politics
Imagine that those who aspire to total control were in no hurry. That their ambition, their ideology, presented an ultimate goal that most of the adherents understood would, most likely, not come to fruition in their own lifetimes. I would agree that ideals, by their …
