#personal-growth

"Old People [10w] At the mere mention of death they gasp for breath."

"Hate Recycle Bin When you empty your hate recycle binit frees up more memory to write even better poetry.Just try it and tell me this isn't true!"

"Rules of Etiquette [10w] Rules of etiquette are pretend manners for the lower classes."

"Carrots and Creativity [10w] Put a carrot in front of you for optimal creativity."

"Publisher's Persuasion "You're much too good a writer to want a six figure advance. You don't want your readers to think you're only writing for money ~ do you?"

"It takes a well-spent lifetime, and perhaps more, to crystalize in us that for which we exist."

"Shit Poetry [10w] Poetry without grace of expression is just so much shit."

"Russian, Metafizicheskiy-poshlost This is the humorous metaphysical banality like watching Tolstoy's wife, Sophia, nag her husband about leaving borscht stains on the table linen. The resulting discombobulation totally messed up the ending of Anna Karenina."

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

"Poetry as Conspiracy [10w] A poem is unspoken conspiracy between the reader and poet."

"That Jesus Kinda' Love [20w] What people do for the loveof their Lord and Savior, Jesus Christ,I wouldn't do for my fucking mother."

"Revenge [10w] Revenge is a long game;all you need is time."

"Grease [10w] Relationships between people are rarely frictionless;they all need grease."

"Penetration [10w] The difference between truism and an enlightened [10w] is penetration."

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

"you=""are=""what=""eat"=""[10w]=""That's why I've become a pizza with a pussy topping."

"Autumn Ikebana [10w] + {Haiku} Earthen rainbows raked by Autumn's Ikebana of wind arranging leaves.or:Earthen rainbows raked by Autumn's Ikebana of wind arranging leaves."

"Heaven [10w] Heaven’s not a destination ~it’s a way of processing life."

"Dysfunctional Love We split up not because he or she didn't love us,but because they did love us in the only way they knew how."

"My Secret for Out-of-the-Box-Thinking To help me writein my signature out-of-the-box style,I sit in front of my humidifier that I've filled up with Grey Goose vodka.My humidifier is now at Underwriters Laboratoriesin a 12-Step Programand buddied up with a de-humidifier."