#sage

"Remorse among Thieves When a caught thief shows remorse he says to himself,"I knew I should pull off that heist differently."

"Grease [10w] Relationships between people are rarely frictionless;they all need grease."

"Becoming [10w] We're a becoming whose final shape is unknown to all."

"The Great Blue of the Great Blue A Great Blue whale mourns her hunted mate.Her heart, once the size of an SUV,lonely rides the empty sea,her heart's now withered to subcompact class,her whys and wherefores, run out of gas."

"ESL New immigrantswho've taken ESL (English as a Second Language),will always misunderstand sarcasm ~but those fuckers sure as shit enjoy the prices at Walmart."

"Taste [10w] + [10w] "If you have sophisticated taste, you like what I like.If you're a Neanderthal, you will love what I hate."

"Epiphanies [10w] Epiphanies aren't intuitions of new ideas;they're rearranging existing information."

"Perfection [10w] If you've attained perfection,then what's the point of living?"

"Rhyme vs. Reason {Couplet} Do not try to make rhyme of reason,nor reason of rhyme;For the former's too systematic,the latter's too sublime."

"9/11 Haiku: Rudy Giuliani, Mayor of New York "Now you boxcutter, Iraqi Pete, camel fuckersreally pissed me off!"

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

"To Trend or Not to Trend I've had a thousand trending poems,they were rarely my best.Evoking empathy and shared feelingis the poet's only true test."

"As Dead As "Nothing's changed at my place of birth.It is as dead as I remember leaving it."

"Travel [10w] The difference between a traveler and vacationer is one arrives."

"Love vs. Mental Illness [10w] Love, like mental illness, comes on graduallyand then suddenly."

"Object of Desire A woman knows she's the object of a unknown man's desirelike a game animal becoming aware it is being looked at."

"Money vs. Happiness [10w] Why do people with money say,'money can't buy happiness'?"

"Preserving Beauty [10w] + {Couplet} Preserving beauty is futile;even Cleopatra returned to the Nile."

"Life is like a sandwich!Birth as one slice,and death as the other.What you put in-between the slices is up to you.Is your sandwich tasty or sour?Allan Rufus.org"

"Perfect Sex [10w] Perfects sex balances the conflicting pleasures of submission and mastery."