Poetry and that’s without quote marks

when I have more time…’yeah yeah…oh you ‘busy’ ones –I’m on to you…tell me that it’s not becauseyou’re ‘busily’ maintaininga self-important picture of yourself–(a picture based on fear?):tell me that it’s not becauseit’s your deceitful way to ‘prioritise’what you want to give yourself to,and that which you don’t…‘Occupied’; ‘constantly active’ –that sounds a little better,a…

later we judge them;rarely, if ever, do we forgive them…a jaundiced view?we remember (most of the fortunate) that childhood, once,was bliss, and life was full and endlessand lived entirely in the present,skies were blue, or rain meant indoor play;and happiness and joy was always ours..and yet, we blame our parents…violently; or gently; or with unspoken…

so much of observation of the mind,so much of consciousness itself revealed…and all this given due language and due terms –that we, the distant heirs, yet that same self,may struggle, in our word-hoard so much less,to stretch our minds to comprehend this wealth;thus, make a virtue from necessity,and as perforce the English mystics did,with heart-warmed…

and writes on the specials board– yes, there is a specials board –something like Indomalekian Sunrise Stew.(Kenny and his oldest son, Charlie,invented the country of Indomalekiaalong with its culinary traditions.)A couple of weeks later, someonefinally orders Indomalekian Sunrise Stewand Kenny can’t remember what he had in mindwhen he thought it up.Fortunately, the customer doesn’t know,…

go back to those two Greek philosophers,the one, who wept at the follies of mankind,the other, who laughed at those same follies…In order to justify the invasion of Iraqin 2003, on the other grounds to ‘regime change’,i.e. that Iraq had ‘wep-ma-struc’ in Bush-speak,the federal government has made public48,000 boxes of papers captured from Iraq.These include…

In the eyes of true love,everyone is the same.Are love and law, then,the same?Or if not,which came first?