Most Americans would agree that Plowshares is a Theatre of the Absurd.

The arms race is worse than it ever was, the dumping of creation down a military rat hole is worse than it ever was, the wars across the earth are worse than they ever were.

I think of my brother just out of prison again. He will have spent ten years of the last 30 in prison.

Every nation-state tends towards the imperial - that is the point. Through banks, armies, secret police, propaganda, courts and jails, treaties, taxes, laws and orders, myths of civil obedience, assumptions of civic virtue at the top.

Start with the impossible. Proceed calmly towards the improbable. No worry, there are at least five exits.

There are no makers of peace because the making of peace is at least as costly as the making of war - at least as exigent.

I'd like to die with my boots on.