#poetry

"Hellman's Mayonnaise: Bring out the Hellman's and bring out the best... ...artery clogger since Burger King’s Triple Whopper with Cheese."

"It was not in me It came and wentI wanted to hold it It was held by wine(I no longer know what it was)"

"To those who abuse: the sin is yours, the crime is yours, and the shame is yours. To those who protect the perpetrators: blaming the victims only masks the evil within, making you as guilty as those who abuse. Stand up for the innocent or go down with the rest."

"Love on Fire [10w] A man in love cannot see fire or smell smoke."

"Winning vs. Losing [10w] Too often the cost of winning is losing your soul."

"Bridges [10w] Bridges are overpasses for commuters and roofs for the homeless."

"Bonjour [10w] You're more obscure than first we met,"uttered with regret."

"I am obnoxious to each carping tongue/ Who says my hand a needle better fits./ A poet's pen all scorn I should thus wrong/ For such despite they cast on female wits;/ If what I do prove well, it won't advance,/ They'll say it's stolen, or else, it was by chance."

"They'd Rather Switch [10w] Hearing is wasted on the blind;sight, on the deaf."

"At last everything was satisfactorily arranged, and I could not help admiring the setting: these mingled touches betrayed on a small scale the inspiration of a poet, the research of a scientist, the good taste of an artist, the gourmet’s fondness for good food, and the love of flowers, which concealed in their delicate shadows a hint of the love of women"

"The rain to the wind said,You push and I'll pelt.'They so smote the garden bedThat the flowers actually knelt,And lay lodged--though not dead.I know how the flowers felt."

"The Great Blue of the Great Blue A Great Blue whale mourns her hunted mate.Her heart, once the size of an SUV,lonely rides the empty sea,her heart's now withered to subcompact class,her whys and wherefores, run out of gas."

"Who Isn't [10w] Psychotherapy's powerless once you assume you're smarter than the therapist."

"No thought is a stupid thought, those who are thoughtless are thought of as stupid."

"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."

"Rationality vs. Madness [10w] Rationality maintains the world's status quo.Madness drives the change."

"[I'm]a freak user of words, not a poet."

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

"He knows he will be born again, And start fresh anew."

"He could build a city. Has a certain capacity. There’s a niche in his chestwhere a heart would fit perfectlyand he thinks if he could just maneuver one into place –well then, game over."