You want your decisions taken away from you so you won’t be responsible for your own actions? - Margaret Atwood

Last year I abstained
this year I devour

without guilt
which is also an art

In the desert there is no sign that says, Thou shalt not eat stones. — Sufi proverb

The weapons that were once outside sharpening themselves on war are now indoors there, in the fortress, fragile in glass cases; Why is it (I’m thinking of the careful moulding round the stonework archways) that in this time, such elaborate defences keep things that are no longer (much) worth defending?