#sage

"Money Can't Buy Everything [10w] Money can't buy everything ~ but love is certainly no exception."

"California Milk Processor Board: Got Milk?... ...cuz I got a fucking hangover."

"Me vs. Me Only the practice of empathy and gratitudecan make the opaque ego transparent to receivethe loving light emanating from your soul.Hate and selfishness will always leave you'in the shadow."

"Wisconsin State Motto Forward.Leading the nation in drunk driving and Cheesehead hats."

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

"Nebraska State Motto Equality before the law.Where Monsanto/GMO corn is above the law."

"Poorly Hidden [10w] We're incapable of hiding arrogance, ambition or being in love."

"Maine State Motto Dirigo. [10]You won't find no niggers here, eh."

"The 2-Step Self-Discovery Program The first step in self-discovery is not giving a shit what anybody else thinks.The second step is knowing you're a self-centered asshole."

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

"Till Death Do You Part [10w] Marriage will indeed change people ~for better or for worse."

"My Secret for Out-of-the-Box-Thinking To help me writein my signature out-of-the-box style,I sit in front of my humidifier that I've filled up with Grey Goose vodka.My humidifier is now at Underwriters Laboratoriesin a 12-Step Programand buddied up with a de-humidifier."

"Note to Self: Patent #10w Diving Mask for fish filled with water when oceans disappear."

"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."

"Cumin vs. Acumen Cumin is a powerful spice with a nutty peppery flavor;Acumen is more about having the good taste to knowhow and when to use it."

"Small Packages [10w] Great things come in small packages from a geological perspective."

"Silly String [10w] Life' an absurdity radiating from a spine of silly string."

"Soup [10w] Never marry anyone who eats their soup with a ladle."

"Kaddish Kaddish for Mrs. Ginsbergis not Kaddish,For your mom raised a Buddhistand mine raised a Jew.You'll zazen for your loss,I'll daven for mine.I do not belittle your loss,your grief is no less than mine.But by abandoning your tribe, אלון,Who now will say Kaddish for you?"

"North Dakota Haiku "My bib overallslook spiffy at a weddingor a funeral."