#powerful-story

"Family {Couplet} For my misery, family brings relief,tripling my joy, halving my grief.This aesthetic arithmetic's quite poetic,an accounting surmounting odds unsympathetic.Now there seems no hardship I cannot withstand,accompanied by my exponential, familial band."

"Star No matter how bright the star, it's just part of a galaxy which is part of a constellation which is part of the night skywhich is part of the known universewhich is a speck of dust in God's eye."

"Past/Present/Future I have no problem living in the present,but because of my pastpeople want to kill me in the future."

"Dictator [10w] Clever dictators keep their friends closeand their enemies dead."

"Arches National Park, Utah BloodshotZiggurats of rock against unbending sky,sandstone fins and eyes of ancient earth behemoth.Your windows wedged by cosmic hands of rain and melting snow, of frost and ice, of gravity and geologic time, patient and untiring,self-possessed like a child's perception of endless summer."

"Rationalize [10w] Man needs an apt aphorism to rationalize his ruthless actions."

"Sumerian Haiku Sumerian whoregrabs my wedge, says: 'I love aman in cuneiform."

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

"Detonation vs. Pre-Ignition [10w] Poets have thin skins;physicists call this differential burn rates."

"Original Thoughts [10w] Original thoughts are not diminished by days, distance or disregard."

"Epic vs. Great Poetry [10w] Epic poetry's about the extraordinary;Great poetry is about the commonplace."

"Hellman's Mayonnaise: Bring out the Hellman's and bring out the best... ...artery clogger since Burger King’s Triple Whopper with Cheese."

"Thank You Dick Wolf [10w] TV crime shows taught me it’s best to lawyer up."

"Trickeries, Sophistries and Traps [10w] Life's great irony is that we, the trapped,set traps."

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

"Good and Evil To have good and evil the Devil must always remain a step beyond saving."

"2 Rules on Becoming a Good Poet [10w] Rule#1: Never write shitty poetry.Rule#2: Never forget Rule #1."

"In the Future [1]: (criminals) In the future we're going to find a wayto turn criminals into wordsand then place them in parentheses."

"Want vs. What's Coming to You As the Rolling Stones say,You can't always get what you want ~but God will always give you what's coming to you."

"Privacy [10w] Why someone prefers his privacy is itself a private matter."