Mourning
Today we mourn the passing of a beloved old friend, Common Sense, who has been with us for many years.
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For Gods Sake
For Gods Sake How can you be so self assured, When nothing ever matters anymore. How does it feel to be dreaming your real. Do you wake in a new place with a new race. Let's be friends said a vicar.
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Evolution?
Have you ever wondered what evolution really is. Is it just me thinking that we are slowing our evolution rate. Do you think the microwave is an evolution or Are those a form of evolution. Maybe...
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Knife Crime
Flick knives and fist fights, It's sometimes murder here on nights. One arrested, one accused, Something to fill out the boring evening news.
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The Coloured Man
Writer unknown:- He was a five year old indian boy bullied for his race. He won an award for this poem.
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Infiltrate
Not in control, who am I kidding,I wouldn't be anywhere without your fiddling, We're all slaves really, to our minds, we trust in them they act so kind, Try to play the system easy to fail, salute...
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Untitled
A coloured man was on a bus full of white people. He completely ignored the sign at the front seats that said 'WHITES ONLY' and sat down. For a few moments, the white passengers stared at the man.
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Save The Children
For charity, save the children. You can freeze them now, you know. You need not eat a whole one In one overfilling go.
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Untitled
“Did you know that for pretty much the entire history of the human species, the average life span was less than thirty years. You could count on ten years or so of real adulthood, right.
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Crescent Moon
The crescent moon was bleeding and blending, the wind blowing in from the west. Soldiers were shooting and seeding, igniting the growing unrest.
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Feminism
A reply to @Irrational_Kimmy 's oppus Feminism - A collection of movements aimed at defining, establishing and defending equil political, economic and social rights for women.
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Tell Me
You said i was a mess. I guess I must have been possessed. Do you know what it means When your soul comes undone at the seams.
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Untitled
I live amongst the groaning, wheezing plague of rolling tyres and Friday vomit. Splattered upon the pavement and dried in dyed hair and decorating Primark heels.
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Another Day In Paradise
Oh my. Another day of painting the blessed hallway. I have been decorating now for more than three weeks and all I see around me is mess. I wonder why I bother. Life is like that though eh.
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Husband Mart
A store that sells husbands has just opened in Ottawa where a woman may go to choose a husband from among many men.
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Perdition
Welcome to perdition. The city within the city. Inside of the capital. Where dreams are encouraged and success is fallible.
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Are You Sure?
“There are no stupid questions”. Speakers like to say. When they know full well that people ask. Stupid questions every day. “What time is the ten o’clock meeting?”. “Did you cut your hair?”.
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The UNbalance Of Media
After listening to BBC2, and a chat about NLP, I have to comment, and here is my Unbiased Comment.
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Wise
I chanced upon the wise man. Sitting atop a pole. I asked him why, he cast an eye. And said "to cleanse my soul". I marvelled at his wisdom. And asked him could it be.
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Beer
From an old email- Police are warning all men who frequent clubs, parties & local pubs to be alert and stay cautious when offered a drink from any woman.
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Friendship
How come girls alway 'love their friends to bits' (or maybe claim to). Guys don't. However, one misunderstanding, and girls become not only 'not friends', but actual enemies.
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Our Broken World
It's difficult to change the world, In bedlam, screams are seldom heard, If verse and prose could shape the times, Then war and hate would be old crimes, Forgotten, distant memories Romantics would...
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A Rant About Chavs.
God. Chavs annoy me a lot. Gangsters I can live with, since they are somewhat scary, but Chavs just drive me crazy.
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Blame
I am silenced by the gutless, in their towers of ivory and gold, muted into violence, as all of my cards they hold. Bastardised by a label, I am England's forgotten son.
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