On a National Express coach 30.10.2010.

On being unable to sleep aboard a National Express coach.


'The lucky bastards'

I think

when I see them

slumping and nodding

despite the spangling of a mobile

or an Iphone inside which

some twigs

seem to be having sex

or else there's a fire in a pet-shop.

Despite the terse 'hullo',

the non-consequential

fired into the back

of a headrest.

Despite the shoved seat

and fizzed coke.



I long to no longer long

to be drawn along

the mysterious

undertow

as they are,

pushed (or is it pulled)

along that nameless grey corridor,

part of a vehicle

that is going somewhere

magically by standing still,

along that strange trajectory

which is not a straight line

or an arc

but charms

all the way

like some kind

of white lie.

Climate change deniers raise temperature 30.09.2010

Source: The  Times

The Royal Society has seen fit to rewrite its guide to climate change and states that ther is

'uncertainty about future temperature increases' after 40 of its fellows rebelled and questioned its earlier findings.



R.S. rebels rumour

revision re. regional

re-readings, rally.

Miners haiku 30.09.2011.

Source The Guardian.

Thirty three Chilean miners have all been rescued after over a month of living far underground.This is a testimony to the human spirit and to human compassion, of faith on the part of the miners whose courage never wavered and who took up Bible reading classes using tiny bibles underground, of their compatriots and relatives as well as a tribute to the hard work and dedication of those who brought them up safely from the San Jose gold and copper mine in Copiago. The world's media descended on them and their story and had hoped to make them into celebrities.

The capsule designed to rescue the miners was sent down a hole the diameter of a man-hole cover, or, if you prefer, a hole the diameter of an American pizza. Other items were sent to keep them alive. Pills, boots, collapsible beds in bits, crucifixes, food, water were all sent down a bore-hole.

All 33 trapped men were brought up via the capsule.


Crosses, pills, beds and

hope kept chilled miners alive

(story was mined though.)

Castro's prophecy's ignored09.09.2010

The Times reports, in a tiny 3"x 2" piece buried somewhere in its World News pages that Fidel Castro has warned, in an address to the Cuban Parliament that Israel and the U.S. are preparing to attack Iran with nuclear weapons.

Coming WW3
scenario reported
as 'News In Brief'.



Castro's World War Three
prophecy castrated by
edit catastrophe.

Saab car crash probe 12.09.2010.

Source: Metro.

Greater Manchester Police were yesterday hunting two men who drove an old Saab along a pavement in Rochdale just after 2a.m., when crowds were moving to the next late night haunt because they'd been refused admission to the Dali Bar. Seventy five people were taken to hospital.

Det. Insp. Darren Meeks said 'to deliberately drive a car along a crowded pavement is incomprehensively dangerous and reckless.'

A GMP spokesperson said  'The person we are looking for knows we want to speak to him so if anyone knows where he is they should call us.'


Reckless rowdies in

wreck run riotous, rout

Rochdale revellers.





"If you know where the

man who knows we know about

him is, let us know"

Caesarean section. 29.06.2010.

Source The Metro.

A target to reduce the ridiculous number of births by Caesarean section in Britain on the NHS (a surgical procedure which involves several nights stay in hospital and often leads to medical complications later) sometimes by mothers in their thirties and forties who want a baby but not the pain involved has been quietly dropped. The risks associated with this procedure have been dismissed as 'a myth' by 'experts'.

NHS cuts dropped
on Caesarean births, more
babies dropped through cuts.