#knowledge-teaching

"Opportunity Knocks: China When opportunity knocksthe Chinese make knock-offs."

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

"When Old Age Begins Old age seizes center stagewhen more people we love are amidst the deadthan amongst the living."

"Genesis {Couplet} God spoke the world into existence, reifying an abstraction.Now the Creator's had second thoughts and wishes to utter a retraction."

"What's in it for me?' A selfish person doesn't become compassionate as the result of some words of wisdom or epiphany. The selfish need selfish reasons to act unselfish."

"Rice-a-Roni: The San Francisco treat... ...the other treat, of course, being anal penetration."

"Detonation vs. Pre-Ignition [10w] Poets have thin skins;physicists call this differential burn rates."

"Imaginary Friends When my childhood imaginary friend got mad at mehe insulted me by calling me 'real'."

"Hemidemisemiquaver [10w] The composer evened the score by ending in a hemidemisemiquaver."

"Coffee Wisdom [2] For a real manthe only thing better than the scent of pussyis the smell of freshly ground coffee."

"Death Ride Denied At the stables of your agonyDeath brought his morbid mareTo whisk you from your woeful wantsAnd coax you from your cares.A ride you did deny this princeAnd bid him soft farewell,Hoping the morrow must be brighter sinceYour yesterdays were hell."

"Leaps of Faith [10w] Like religion, leaps of faith are behind all idealistic movements."

"War [10w] Fight wars not to win, but so our enemies don't."

"Animal Species Identity [10w] Funny how animals know their own species without a mirror."

"Celebrity [10w] Celebrity is an insignificant zit on the surface of history."

"Coins [10w] Statesmen whose faces are on coins are amenable to change."

"God vs. Satan [10w] Why can't God and Satan get along?They're both detail-oriented."

"The Poet's Mind In so many ways I walk ablaze in a maze,my eyes in a glaze, my mind in a daze,this poem's just a phrase in the latency phase,rephrase, rephrase, rephrase..."

"Present {Couplet} Our present is the dissipating despair of our past mingled with the promise of our future we hope will last."

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