#positive-mindset

"I don't do that kind of negativity. If you put your energy into thinking about how much the fall would hurt, you're already halfway down."

"Poetry is a Ladder {C☰O☰U☰P☰L☰E☰T} {The poet's job is to create a ladder} {for the reader to enter his imagination}and☰once☰they've☰climbed☰u­p☰to☰the ☰top☰remove☰each☰rung☰by☰grad­ation"

"Birds [10w] When a bird wakens, flight is no longer a dream."

"Preparation [10w] Hope for the best, but prepare for your insufferable wife."

"Soulmate [10w] When you meet your soulmate,God's walked into the room."

"A Poem Must Have an Accomplice If you cannot bamboozle the reader into becoming a willing accomplice to your artifice and collusion the poem won't fly."

"Idiots vs. Fools [10w] Idiots listen to other's bullshit;fools listen to their own."

"Love's Kiss of Death [10w] Love's kiss of death is taking each another for granted."

"Loneliness [10w] Loneliness is GPS equipped new Mercedeswith nowhere to go.****************"

"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."

"Beating the Language Like a Tom-Tom with a Mohawk "Actually, you will receive a free pre-owned gift with every purchase,irregardless of the awesome enormity of your stupidity."

"Pale Oak Leaves Scatter Pale oak leaves scatteraround my father's grave."For this I pay $30/month maintenance?"

"Regret [10w] Regret's more about lost opportunities than about paths we've chosen."

"United Negro College Fund: A mind is a terrible thing to waste... ...and so is your paycheck,so don't waste good money on a lost cause."

"Cinco de Mayo [10w] What day do the dead party to celebrate the living?"

"Hate Recycle Bin When you empty your hate recycle binit frees up more memory to write even better poetry.Just try it and tell me this isn't true!"

"Siesta Mud tracked from the rice fields blazon a pathFrom kitchen to cellar escaping noon’s wrath.A quiet siesta to break the ordealOf scything and sifting and spinning the wheel.Half a dream later he returns to the fieldTo seeding earth’s furrows. massaging its yield.And when Sun descends gravely back to her tombHe tracks back to the kitchen, the cellar, his room."

"Gone to the Dogs [10w] All ideals corrupt into ideology to sustain the social order."

"Having Words with Words [10w] ”I’ve had a falling out with words,leaving me speechless."

"The AP Stylebook is Useless {Couplet} I can't abbreviate abbreviation nor know how to initialize an acronym,I can find the contraction for contraction nor the précis for a homonym."