#positive-motivation

"Rebellious Fish [10w] Sometimes swimming against the current turns you into glazed salmon."

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

"Choice vs. Disease [10w] People who label lack of control a disease evade responsibility."

"Infinite Promise The carrot of infinite promise always dangles just inches beyond our noses.The trick is to surreptitiously switch that carrot for a zucchini."

"Hatred is a Simple Child Hatred is a simple child nurtured and coddled in a raging heart and then released into a crowd of innocents wearing a suicide vest."

"Rules of Etiquette [10w] Rules of etiquette are pretend manners for the lower classes."

"The 3 Most Powerful Words in the English Language for Every College Student [3w] Ilovepizza"

"Ageing [10w] There's no such thing as age -- only degrees of opacity."

"Penetration [10w] The difference between truism and an enlightened [10w] is penetration."

"The Gypsy Jackpot An ambulance, a police car and a fire truck parked in front of a gypsy's trailer can only mean one thing ~ insurance scam!"

"Small Degrees Lobster don't fathom they're being cooked,like relationships being snuffed out in small degreesbut in reverse, as love begins to freeze over, trapping you in a impenetrable ceiling of ice until you drown."

"Before It's Too Late [10w] Life's too transient to waste time hating ~plot revenge now!"

"Listen to the Wisdom of Shakespeare 'To thine own self be true and fuck'em till they're back and blue."

"Hope for the Heartbroken A broken heartremains in piecesbut learns to love againwith every fragment."

"Las Vegas Magic! I was the greatest magician in the world.Things were going great. My agent booked me to play the Mirage Hotel in Las Vegas for $100,000 per performance!When I got onstage everything suddenly disappeared.I'm not sure if it was allan illusion or a delusion,but I cashed the check anyway just to be safe."

"Ars Poetica: Write Poetry on a Black Slate Poetry should be written on a black slate of imagination,the poet artfully allowing images to emerge from the dark."

"There's More Than Two Choices [10w] Don't take the road less traveled;blaze your own path."

"Love's Reward [10w] + {Couplet} Love repaid is love's reward;recompense fair towards being adored."

"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."

"Jesus [10w] "Sorry to keep you hanging,but it's just our nature."