#sacred-teachings

"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."

"Learning from Experience Learning from experience means, 'Boy, did I just fuck up!"

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

"Party Hat [10w] Circus clowns, Frenchmen, and sanitation workers look better in party-hats.."

"How Hard? [10w] Fuck’em hard enough to make their breasts move like Jell-O."

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

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

"One Size Fits All Life Strategy Smile first.Ask questions later."

"Spirituality and Aging Spirituality comes naturally to the old because they're running out of options."

"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."

"Journalist asks me whether I can sit down for an interview... Sorry, I can't talk now. I'm busy writing up a storm.How about tomorrow?Sorry, tomorrow I'm bust conjuring up a tornado."

"Biggest Problem with 10w [10w] The biggest problem with aphorisms is people believe they're true."

"Democracy, Really [10w] A democracy is free to replace one tyranny with another."

"Simply Fabulous Haiku If I write fablesam I a fabulist orsimply fabulous?"

"A Note from Time Management [10w] Our time machine's temporarily out of order. Come back yesterday."

"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."

"Dogs [10w] Dogs never lie about love,but occasionally fake an orgasm."

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

"Taco Bell [10w] Taco Bell: Living proof you can shit where you eat."

"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."