#mastery

"Poets, Shakespeare and Trash A poet must read equal amountsof trash and Shakespeare to learn how to distinguish between the two."

"Who is Fortunate? [10w] Who is fortunate?He who measures his fortune in friends."

"Fashion [10w] Clothes makes the man.Fashion, above all, makes the President."

"Stratospherical Poems [10w] Poets circle the earth in a higher orbit than readers."

"Hermits vs. Rising Real Estate Costs [10w] Hermits can no longer afford a cabin in the woods."

"No Planning for Death [10w] People put more planning into a weekend vacation than death."

"Go with your Gut Our eyes, our mind plays tricks.Our love muscle, our heartchooses blindly and impulsively.But our gut,ahh, our gut,always makes the wise choice ~and goes straight for the burning hot pocketsfresh out of the microwavebecause our mouthsahh, our mouths,never needed a roof in the first place."

"Nature's Prayer [10w] + {Couplet} Trees gesticulate in morning prayer;wind circulates with cleansing air."

"No-brainers [10w] No-brainers are challenging enough for people with no fucking brains."

"Hug [10w] To embrace what you truly love,give it a hug."

"Family {Couplet} For my misery, family brings relief,tripling my joy, halving my grief.This aesthetic arithmetic's quite poetic,an accounting surmounting odds unsympathetic.Now there seems no hardship I cannot withstand,accompanied by my exponential, familial band."

"Lubbock, Texas Haiku Oil wells, Hub of the Plains.Stinks like an armpit."

"The Fate of Prodigies [10w] Early to peak, early to deal with obsolescence and obscurity."

"Renewal Cream [10w] The features of the human face are enriched by poetry."

"New Year's Resolutions New Year's resolutions shouldn't be about doing new things;it should be about stopping to do the shitty things you're already doing."

"Jew in a Canoe Haiku Jew in a canoe,whitewater rushes, the canoe tips.The Jew doesn't."

"Soup [10w] Never marry anyone who eats their soup with a ladle."

"The Game Is Afoot God's buried eight jewels within my soul.Life's game is,'Remove each gem, yet find me whole.'The clue is,"Eight is one, and one is eight,no jewel's more precious,all equally great."

"Sixty is the New Fifty The good news is sixty is the new fifty.The bad news is twenty is the new ten."

"The Poet's Limitless Imagination [10w] The stringy shit from my goldfish turns him into a kite."