#poetry

"So the freshness lives onin a lemon,in the sweet-smelling house of the rind,the proportions, arcane and acerb."

"Spirituality and Aging Spirituality comes naturally to the old because they're running out of options."

"Depression vs. Death Depression is anger turned within causing misery and hopelessness.Death is hate turned within until it totally eats you alive."

"Battered Women [5w] Battered womenare more crispy."

"Creation "I shake my fist and there's bang.Stars sift like sand through my fingers;each swirl of my wrist a galaxy,every kiss imbued with a bit of me."

"Maybe you could be mine / or maybe we’ll be entwined / aimless in this sexless foreplay."

"Soulmate My Ass [10w] Aspire to marry the person the least wrong for you."

"How to Get Girls into Bed When I take a new girl out on a dateI tell them I slipped poison into their wineand the antidote is on my penis."

"If you only write when inspired, you may be a fairly decent poet, but you'll never be a novelist."

"Today's Affirmation [10w] "I'll unplug myself from myselfand plug into something higher."

"...and then, I have nature and art and poetry, and if that is not enough, what is enough?"

"Adult Pretend [10w] "I'm tired of playing 'pretend';let's play 'get-real, bitch."

"The Moving Finger writes; and, having writ,Moves on: nor all thy Piety nor WitShall lure it back to cancel half a Line,Nor all thy Tears wash out a Word of it."

"Pain vs. Pleasure {Couplet} Pain and pleasure are nearly identical,the difference lies in their temporal perception.Pleasure feels fleeting, pain feels unending;both jolt us at the nerve's first inception."

"the stars began to burnthrough the sheets of clouds,and there was a new voicewhich you slowlyrecognized as your own"

"Oppressor vs. Oppressed [10w] Love somtimes disintegrates into becoming the oppressor or the oppressed."

"i carry your heart with me(i carry it in my heart)"

"Tonight I saw myself in the dark window asthe image of my father, whose lifewas spent like this,thinking of death, to the exclusionof other sensual matters,so in the end that lifewas easy to give up, sinceit contained nothing: evenmy mother's voice couldn't make himchange or turn backas he believedthat once you can't love another human beingyou have no place in the world."

"Pizza vs. Internet Porn I'm still debating whether pizza or internet porn is the best thing ever invented.I've already jack-off three times while eating a double-cheese pepperoni piemaking my careful deliberations."

"Valentine's Day 1 [10w] Valentine's Day affirms the promise that love can be sustained."