#poetry

"Barnum & Bailey Circus: The Greatest Show on Earth... ...when you can't afford Cirque du Soleil."

"The death of a beautiful woman is, unquestionably, the most poetical topic in the world."

"I love you without knowing how, or when, or from where. I love you simply, without problems or pride: I love you in this way because I do not know any other way of loving but this, in which there is no I or you, so intimate that your hand upon my chest is my hand, so intimate that when I fall asleep your eyes close."

"I am that last, thatfinal thing, the bodyin a white sheet listening,"

"Lotto If I won a million bucks in Lotto,I'd give it to Charity.Charity gives great head."

"You Can't Win [10w] Every bitch is a witch;every wife brings you strife."

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

"Perfect Sex [10w] Perfects sex balances the conflicting pleasures of submission and mastery."

"The Poet's Job [10w] + {Couplet} Trigger memory, explode an emotion;the poet must create commotion....................................................­....................."

"My imagination makes me human and makes me a fool; it gives me all the world and exiles me from it."

"One difference between poetry and lyrics is that lyrics sort of fade into the background. They fade on the page and live on the stage when set to music."

"The only emperor is the emperor of ice cream."

"O, it's die we must, but it's live we can, And the marvel of earth and sun Is all for the joy of woman and man And the longing that makes them one."

"O how we call each other namesYou call me schizophrenicI call you GodBut we do agree on oneDeluded are we both."

"Flood of Feeling {Couplet} A flood of feeling is a poem,created from daydreaming in the zone.The levees break, emotions snake,from imagination's ocean who sets the stakes."

"One should always be drunk. That's all that matters...But with what? With wine, with poetry, or with virtue, as you chose. But get drunk."

"Hello Poetry Needs Y'allz How empty the oceans would be were it only filled with orcas."

"Origami Master If you're the greatest origami master in the worldmaybe I can find you a job folding napkins at a restaurant.I'm not making any promises."

"Instead of reciting her an original love poem using words, I think I’ll use my tongue to more creatively explore the deepest parts of her."

"Happy the man, and happy he alone,he who can call today his own:he who, secure within, can say,Tomorrow do thy worst, for I have lived today.Be fair or foul, or rain or shinethe joys I have possessed, in spite of fate, are mine.Not Heaven itself, upon the past has power,but what has been, has been, and I have had my hour."