Classic Poem

I CURSE PARADOX —
I curse the contradictory inconsistencies of the Modern Mind:
I curse and curse and curse . . .

Those who dogmatise about the folly of dogma:
Those who moralise about the non-existence of morals:
Those who say people are too stupid to educate their children
But not too stupid to educate each other's:
Those who say we can be certain of nothing.
Because we are so certain of all the exploded evolutionary hypotheses
That show we can be certain of nothing . . .

But what are all these inconsistencies —
Compared with the conduct of Those Who
Deliberately call Their House Christmas Cottage,
And then go away from it at Christmas?

I hate those who wage and win twenty unjust wars
And then say " The World now requires Peace " ,
Who then make a League for Peace and use it to make another War:
I hate those who intemperately denounce Beer and call it Temperance;
Those who deny what science says about Cancer
And what Christianity says about Calvary
And Call the Contradiction Christian Science.
I hate those who want to Rise out of Barbarism
By running about naked and grubbing up roots and herbs;
But what are all these aversions . . .?
Compared with the blighting blistering horror and hatred
With which I regard
T HOSE WHO CALL THEIR HOUSE C HRISTMAS COTTAGE
AND THEN GO AWAY FROM IT AT C HRISTMAS ?