Israelis and Palestinians. Catholics and Protestants. Bosnians and Serbians. White Australians and black ones. Always the same problem, always the same solutions. A) Exterminate the other guys. B) Fix them their own place so we don’t have to deal with the fuckers. C) If you can’t exterminate them, make sure they learn their place. You on top, them on the bottom.

For fuck’s sake, as I think Jesus may have said, just be nice to one another, dudes, how hard can it be? The hippies were right. Somebody’s got to change something, sometime. Which is why I wrote this (yep, off with the fairies) poem…

Send warships filled with roses.

Drop jokes from the sky, and chocolates.

Load the drones with glitter and the rockets with hearts.

Offer apologies and then forgetfulness.

Sit down in the rubble and sing for peace,

Take an enemy by the hand, offer a life freely,

If that’s what it takes, for you will lose it anyway.

Be naïve, embrace the innocence and the smiles

Of infancy, share the good things of this place as you would with a beloved friend,

And start not THEN but now.