#death

"Every blade in the field - Every leaf in the forest - lays down its life in its season as beautifully as it was taken up."

"Finding Fault [10w] + {Couplet} We find in others faultWhenever our wounds perceives salt."

"They'd Rather Switch [10w] Hearing is wasted on the blind;sight, on the deaf."

"Humor has to surprise us; otherwise, it isn't funny. It's a death knell for a writer to be labeled a humorist because then it's not a surprise anymore."

"Do Me No Favors Haiku 'Do me no favors ~I can take care of myself.So, pay the check and drive me home."

"Remorse among Thieves When a caught thief shows remorse he says to himself,"I knew I should pull off that heist differently."

"If I take death into my life, acknowledge it, and face it squarely, I will free myself from the anxiety of death and the pettiness of life - and only then will I be free to become myself."

"A Poem Must Have an Accomplice If you cannot bamboozle the reader into becoming a willing accomplice to your artifice and collusion the poem won't fly."

"You don't have friends in here, you'll soon come to understand that. You get attached to someone, then you'll just lose them. They'll get shanked or they'll jump or they'll be taken one night."

"If I Were God [10w] If I were God I'd sell my shit on Ebay."

"Silly String [10w] Life' an absurdity radiating from a spine of silly string."

"Death: "THERE ARE BETTER THINGS IN THE WORLD THAN ALCOHOL, ALBERT."Albert: "Oh, yes, sir. But alcohol sort of compensates for not getting them."

"Mostly it is loss which teaches us about the worth of things."

"Susannah continued. "If and when I go off slow dancing in the ever after, I don't want to look like I've been stuck in a hospital room my whole life. I at least want to be tan."

"Out to Lunch [10w] Behind closed doors, there's nothing we rightfully can call crazy."

"The awful thing is that if i can forget they're people, it will be no different at all"

"Indiscernible Love [10w] True love's so effortless, others can hardly see it's happening."

"Ruth Whither thou goest, I will go ~as long as it's to the mall.I heard Dillard's is having an 80% off sale!"

"Mongolian, Temeenii'malgai The small fuzzy hat worn by camels that cross the Gobi desert. Usually stolen by natives of Ulaanbaatar for the groom's hat at weddings. The fuzz on the hat smells so bad that the groom is temporarily blinded and can't see how ugly the bride looks until it's too late."

"Death as Opportunity [10w] Death's an opportunity to wisely fill the void it leaves."