#powerful-story

"Office Depot: Taking Care of Business... ...with short breaks, bad management and no job advancement opportunities."

"What is the Meaning of Life? [10w] {6} To be transformed into all we are capable of becoming."

"Flattery [10w] Flattery is the only passport that will get you everywhere"

"Summer NYC ☜ʇɥƃᴉlɟ☞'ɥsɐp ɐ 'ɥsɐlds ∀˙ɥʇɐq ʍollɐɥs ɐ ʇɐ sʍoɹɹɐds ǝʞᴉlsɹǝlʞuᴉɹds ʇɐ uǝɹplᴉɥƆ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~ ~Children at sprinklerslike sparrows at a shallow bath.A splash, a dash, ☜flight☞"

"Glow in the Dark "You've led me from stark nightwith a love that glows in the dark."

"Please Don't Commemorate Me Just Yet [10w] The living are only commemorated when they're at death's door."

"Penetrate the Mysteries "If you ever hope to penetrate the mysteries of the universe,you've got to buy her a drink first and then pretend you're listening."

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

"The Pompous Psychopomp Its your charge to provide me safe passage to the afterlife,to be a midwife to my dying.Any yet, you hover there, judging me,putting on airs, you supercilious whip-poor-will.You're an embarrassment to nightjars everywhere.Now do your fucking job and take me to hell ~which I guess has already begun,judging by your shitty escort service."

"Pamela Anderson Haiku Ben Stillerbeds Pamela Anderson.My alarm clock rings"

"I [10w] 'I' is a wellspring in the desertoverflowing with life."

"Love Fades [10w] Like our love,Chinese painters show distance in faded grays."

"Forget [10w] {Couplet} Let's lift our goblet of regret,forgive, forsake and forget."

"Dangerous Food [10w] The world's most fattening foods are the ones you swallow."

"Atheism [10w] Atheism is the tragic triumph of cold contemptuousness over gratitude."

"Preachiness vs. Prose vs. Poetry A poem that says what it means is prose;if it means what it says it's a sermon.Leave the homiletics for the priestsprose for the journalistsand soulful resonancefor the poets."

"Death Has Bad Timing Death has bad timingbecause rigor mortis sets into your penisjust when you don't fucking need it."

"The Downside of Stuff {Couplet) I got what I want;I have what I need.But they want what I have,and they'll make me bleed."

"Mind's Eye What vain man is not a hero in his mind's eye;What egoist not the protagonist upon which the world revolves?"

"Valentine's Day 1 [10w] Valentine's Day affirms the promise that love can be sustained."