#death

"Put it All on Black' [10w] God doesn't play dice with the universe;He prefers roulette."

"Whisper into My Good Ear [10w] "Pour your fears, fantasies, desires into my ear of corn."

"Death has his favorites, like anyone. Those who are beloved of Death will not die."

"When I found him lying in the ditch holding a shovel, I thought he was sleeping on the job. Turns out he was being even lazier, and he was in fact dead."

"1953 It seems the world has gone downhill since the year Sir Edmund Hillary climbed Everest."

"What One Vulture Said to the Other I have a bone to pick with you ~which end shall we start on?"

"Gold Diggers are Always at Two Weddings A gold digger's eyes are searching for her next husband at her wedding."

"Committees [10w] A committee sits in a rectangle and talks in circles."

"The end is in the beginning and yet you go on."

"No - no - no!"someone was shouting. "No! Fred! No!"And Percy was shaking his brother, and Ron was kneeling beside them, and Fred's eyes stared without seeing, the ghost of his last laugh still etched upon his face."

"But my point, you see is that death is misunderstood. The loss of one's life is not the greatest loss. It is no loss at all. To others, perhaps, but not to oneself."

"No one wants to die. Even people who want to go to heaven don't want to die to get there. And yet death is the destination we all share. No one has ever escaped it. And that is as it should be, because Death is very likely the single best invention of Life. It is Life's change agent. It clears out the old to make way for the new."

"Gradually Then Instantly [10w] We fall in love the way we lose our minds."

"If you gave [Jerry] Falwell an enema he could be buried in a matchbox."

"Dude, you don't want to be dead. Take it from me. No-pussy is bad. But dead is like no-pussy times ten."

"Enemies {couplet} Ne'er shall man's enemies been drawn so near,then when he seeketh to compare."

"Cookie Cutter Criticism A critic tried to fit my sense of humor in a cookie cutter,but it wouldn't fit his preconceived shape of what comedy should be.So he pressed harder, and harder and harder until the cookie cutter cut a cookie shaperight through the palm of his hand.It doesn't hurt anymore when the critic tries to slap me in the face.There's no more hot-air resistance."

"Rooftop Poetry Sing poetry from rooftopslike a muzzein' s call for prayer."

"It is not death that a man should fear, but he should fear never beginning to live."

"Everybody has an angel hiding inside. When you die, your angel comes out. You can die, but not your angel. Your angel never dies."