Robin Hood Tax

In theory a good idea.
The answer to the banking problem is simple.
Repeal the law, (ostensibly brought in to stop drug dealing), that ‘criminalizes’ those with more than £1000 cash.
This would mean banks would not monopolize money as they do.
People would once more have the right to choose, between money under the mattress, or in an [...]

From another culture

There is someone who caught my eye,
From another culture.
Lithe, delicate.
A blend of beauty that shines in facial symmetry.
Emotion rising,
In the softness of a slight inclination of lips.
I am bewitched,
Vulnerability in sensuality,
From another culture,
Some one who caught an ‘I’.

Psychic Octopus

The Psychic Octopus could save the worlds problems.
It could tell us where Bin Laden is.
Which way stock markets will go.
It could vote on critical issues.
In fact its prediction of Spain to win the world cup
is more prominent news
than the latest soldier or citizen murdered needlessly
in Helmand province.
The world may be crumbling about us but never [...]