#poetry

"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."

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

"Cookie Cutter Criticism A critic tried to fit my sense of humor in a cookie cutter,but it wouldn't fit his preconceived shape of what comedy should be.So he pressed harder, and harder and harder until the cookie cutter cut a cookie shaperight through the palm of his hand.It doesn't hurt anymore when the critic tries to slap me in the face.There's no more hot-air resistance."

"Pedestals [10w] People should not be placed on pedestals unless they're stuffed."

"The Cure [10w] Laughter, love and faith can cure 95% of all illnesses."

"Where music thundered let the mind be still,Where the will triumphed let there be no will,What light revealed, now let the dark fulfill."

"Cheeky Poets [10w] Remember 'poetry' lies between 'pitiful' and 'poop' in the dictionary."

"California Milk Processor Board: Got Milk?... ...cuz I got a fucking hangover."

"A poet is simply an artist whose medium is human emotions. A poet chisels away at our own sensibilities, shaping our vision while molding our hearts. A poet wraps words around our own feelings and presents them as fresh gifts to humanity."

"Ineffable Poetry A good poem goes beyond the physics of our world;it can't be quantified; it's an ineffable voice that speak directly to our soul,bypassing the laws of this world."

"Entrepreneurs [10w] A man should be judged by the companyhe sells."

"Love, our subject:we've trained it like ivy to our walls."

"That’s the thing about love It can take you up to the mountaintop and can drop you And the impact will either kill you or make you a new person"

"If I read a book and it makes my whole body so cold no fire can ever warm me, I know that is poetry."

"What is that you express in your eyes? It seems to me more than all the print I have read in my life."

"There is a pleasure in the pathless woods,There is a rapture on the lonely shore,There is society, where none intrudes,By the deep sea, and music in its roar:I love not man the less, but Nature more"

"...but it is good to be several floors up in the dead of night wondering whether you are any good or not and the only decision you can make is that you did it..."

"Self-Sufficiency [10w] When God closes a door,buy a Sawzall from Home Depot."

"Notoriety vs. Anonymity [10w] 'Tis better to live with notoriety,than die of anonymity."

"Accurs'd McDonalds, I Bite my Thumb at Thee! {Couplet} Let vex'd heavens rant and rage,This here McNigga slave ain't workin' for no McMinimum wage."