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"Hello Poetry Needs Y'allz How empty the oceans would be were it only filled with orcas."

"Kill Buddha's Hairdresser [10w] I'd like to meet Buddha's hairdresser and shoot the prick."

"Pussy [10w] Her pussy was heaven's gate and the backdoor of hell."

"Fame [10w] Fame has a funny way of rewriting your entire past."

"Our mission as humans is not only to discover our fullest selves in the technium, and to find full contentment, but to expand the possibilities for others. Greater technology will selfishly unleash our talents, but it will also unselfishly unleash others: our children, and all children to come."

"You were never created to live depressed, defeated, guilty, condemned, ashamed or unworthy. We were created to be victorious."

"You’re wishin’ too much, baby. You gotta stop wearing your wishbone where your backbone oughtta be."

"Proof Proof of God's existence is as silly as proof of love's."

"Every person is a living treasure box. Listening holds the key."

"Those who have failed to work toward the truth have missed the purpose of living."

"Speak to the Head [10w] + {Couplet} Tis of no fucking availTo speak to the tail."

"It is not a single cowardice that drives us into fiction's fantasies. We often fear that literature is a game we can't afford to play — the product of idleness and immoral ease. In the grip of that feeling it isn't life we pursue, but the point and purpose of life — its facility, its use."

"Off the Hook True story...A cop pulls me over for speeding.He says, "What's the hurry?"I say, "I'm running awayfrom a bad marriage."He laughs and says, "Drive carefully."The officer lets me go.Beyond the practical lesson thatmaking a policeman laugh may get you off the hook,there's a certain poetry here in the unexpected connection ~for what is a poemif not a moment of surpriseworth retelling."

"Love vs. Mental Illness [10w] Love, like mental illness, comes on graduallyand then suddenly."

"Pale Oak Leaves Scatter Pale oak leaves scatteraround my father's grave."For this I pay $30/month maintenance?"

"Life is a balanced system of learning and evolution. Whether pleasure or pain; every situation in your life serves a purpose. It is up to us to recognize what that purpose could be."

"Leap of Faith [10w] Seeing God withinis where the leap of faith lands."

"Unlike wealth, there is an infinite value in legacy."

"Elegance in Simplicity [10w] The more complex the problem,the simpler the correct answer."

"I have come to see clearly that life is more than self. It is more than doing what I want, striving for what will benefit me, dreaming of all I can be. Life is all about my relationship with God. There is no higher calling, no loftier dream, and no greater goal than to live, breathe, and be poured out for Jesus Christ."--Jamie in Brother Andrew's "The Calling"