#poetry

"You dance inside my chest,where no one sees you,but sometimes I do, and thatsight becomes this art."

"I have been to lots of partiesand acted perfectly disgracefulbut I never actually collapsedoh Lana Turner we love you get up"

"It’s the fire in my eyes, And the flash of my teeth, The swing in my waist, And the joy in my feet. I’m a woman Phenomenally."

"A poet's mission is to make words do more work than they normally do, to make them work on more than one level."

"Food If food comes with a labelthat's warning enough you shouldn't eat it."

"What is God? (60) [10w] God's always the correct answer once you rephrase the question."

"The Machismo Motto [10w] "When we are not hard as nails we get screwed."

"Getting Real about the Eel It's not that eel wants to avoid commitment.From the eel's point of view, it is a matter of survival.Who the fuck wants to be with an eel anyway,when there are plenty of less slippery fish."

"Why covet a knowledge of new facts? Day and night, house and garden, a few books, a few actions, serve us as well as would all trades and all spectacles. We are far from having exhausted the significance of the few symbols we use. We can come to use them yet with a terrible simplicity."

"The wind may be invisible, but it’s colored by memories of you, as you gently blew into my life, adding motion and emotion to my still-beating heart."

"Poets Job Description [10w] Poets console the soul with words and eyes with images."

"Unbeing dead isn't being alive."

"I lock my door upon myself, And bar them out; but who shall wall Self from myself, most loathed of all?"

"Galoshes Haiku Cherry blossoms bloomin the morning mist.Thank God I took my galoshes."

"Through endless night the earth whirls toward a creation unknown..."

"Trance & Instinct The best poems come from trance and instinct;transcribing the unedited voice of universal consciousness."

"But often, in the world’s most crowded streets,But often, in the din of strife,There rises an unspeakable desireAfter the knowledge of our buried life;A thirst to spend our fire and restless forceIn tracking out our true, original course;A longing to inquireInto the mystery of this heart which beatsSo wild, so deep in us—to knowWhence our lives come and where they go."

"Far away, our dreams have nothing to do with what we do. The wind carries the night, and passes on, aimless."

"Coffee Wisdom [2] For a real manthe only thing better than the scent of pussyis the smell of freshly ground coffee."

"My Sweet Home, Alabama If it grows, it sticks, if it crawls, it bites,if it's outside, it rusts,if it's ornery, it fights,if it's a dawg, it barks.if its a possum, it feignsif it's a buggy, it squeals,if it's winter, it's summer,If it's slimy, it's eels.If it ain't Dixie, it won't do,so let's fix to get piss drunkand lynch us another nigger and Jew."