Life Is Charmed

Non-stop watching television last night - my eyes
refused to close reacting to something in the food
or air; watching the Healer heal with energy, the
tiger mantis shrimp breaking into action at speed
such that the water boils - the common octopus
suffocating an attacking shark & sea cucumbers
blooming with ten tentacles feeding continuously

like my own propensity to munch all day long;
wild bridezilla’s buying two wedding dresses
before hunting for a third & parading in layers
of tulle for their innumerable wedding retinues,
Disney Channel Binny and the Ghost chasing
bullies at school; Sabrina the Teenage Witch,
Agatha Christie’s ABC Murder series, the soft-

spoken actors whispering so genteelly I can’t
hear what’s going on and Father Brown in my
favourite show with his black bicycle – our cat
scratching the front door loudly - seemed like
imminent criminal attack until I constructed a
makeshift wall to keep the noisome creature
out; today I’m Quasimodo, a hunchback with

swollen eyes, waiting to don a jihadist cap and
fluttering in a wet towel like a blue Fledermaus
to the bus stop, safe against the sun, reading
my favourite book on the bus, arrive at home
tired & hungry where my pensioner husband
shares his latest schemes for domestic bliss
‘ere I install myself in front of the TV to watch

another plane crash mystery – to summarise,
my life is charmed - like a lovely dream….

[Wednesday 6 February 2019]

Imitate Hypocrisy

Colleagues extolling Protestant and Calvinist business ethics
and material morality creating wealth while improving health –
thus praising a former regime’s higher standards establishing
a successful society in Africa – they forget that the glittering
material edifice was founded on the spiritual rot and decay of
oppression which was justified and glorified by false religion

Hypocrites discriminating on the basis of appearance – I do
not care for the society that was destroyed when we elected
President Mandela for South Africa - the accomplishments
and snobbery of an immoral society have no merit when it’s
based on exploitation – wait, I hear you say, but that is the
way of ALL politicians globally – yes, it is true; but at least

The new interracial nation extends opportunity for power &
corruption to everyone, not only the light-skinned few and
having equal opportunity to do right or wrong is so much
more just than the elite usurping all corrupt practices them-
selves; a majority without rights were reduced to slavery -
do not wonder that these slaves, when finally set free,

Do not understand material and spiritual morality as they
adopt the corrupt practices of their former oppressors and
imitate their hypocrisy so faithfully!

[Wednesday 6 February 2019]