Teenage boys are rarely fret free

fantasising "Who will let me?"

Teenage girls on average bluntly

face the question "Who will want me?"

For President Zelensky

You surely must have realised

that putting Ukraine into NATO

would dangerously antagonise

its historical Russian neighbour.

For possibly having American nukes

stationed right on its western border

wasn't something that any Russian

leader could ever shoulder.

Presumably you judged that Putin

wasn't aggressive enough to start

a war which might get out of hand

with other countries taking part.

Perhaps you underestimated

the need to look big for a little man.

Now that he sees his big mistake

perhaps you could rescind your own.

Now that you know that other countries

will come to your aid you could just veto

your earlier misjudged application -

perhaps you don't need NATO.

Harry and Vladimir

Don't be too hasty to boast about

the enemy soldiers killed.

Consider that each was somebody's brother,

darling son to a loving mother

and possibly husband to wife.

But curse those leaders who sacrifice

everyone else's life.

Proposition

If a person has been convicted of murder by a jury, the judge in the case shall consider the likelihood of a mis-carriage of justice and if there is no reasonable doubt about the certainty of the verdict, (s)he shall impose the death sentence. This shall apply to the convicted of any age.

Tweets 11

Brownian motion ?

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The crust of wholemeal bread

zig-zags around the lawn

propelled by the random pecking

of all the garden sparrows.

Most men lead undistinguished lives.

Very few achieve any fame.

Ask not for whom the bell tolls;

you wouldn't know their name.

Snails are higher class than slugs

because they own their own homes.

Life is a terminal disease

with beneficial side effects.

Terminal

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What do you do

when there's nothing to look forward to?

How do you cope

when there isn't any hope?

The sprays of green buds

on the elderberry bush

look like neat models

of atomic molecules.

It doesn't matter who is right.

It only matters what is right.

To view the past as discrete decades

is topiary trying to shape unruly years.

All that fuss for a few minutes of friction.

It's like they say - you have to laugh

to stop yourself from crying.

I never told so many jokes

as when my wife was dying.

Recent culture

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when children think they're adults

and adults act like kids.

Repeated thawing and re-freezing of the level snow

has propagated a tufted carpet of  icy 'plants'

evenly spaced with sharp toothed pointed 'leaves' -

a new white lawn of frozen 'succulents'.

While novelty is exciting,

routine is oh so soothing.

Better an escort, prostitue

with a real woman's personality

than dark, abusive fantasies,

macho masturbatory.

 

Car driver's gripe

I do empathise with cyclists when

their aim is to cut our air pollution

but if I'm driving a country lane

they are a cause of much frustration.

And it's always annoying at having to crawl

behind one going uphill at no speed

but it's just the last straw to trail after

one taking his dog for a walk on the lead !

Beach Boy ?

There's one little fellow goes to my gym

who might be even older than me !

Certainly he's more frail, him,

and I was astonished later to see

that when we both left the gym together

and I drove away in my cheap old car,

he drove his red two seater sports car -

no John B sloop but a little deuce coupe !