#self-esteem-self-help-book

"Free Lunch There's no such thing as a free lunch ~for people who haven't yet learned to beat the system ;)"

"New Year Resolutions I [10w] Change my voice;unclog my ears;open my heart."

"Love vs. Control [10w] A lover you can control is not worthy of having."

"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."

"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."

"Garden [10w] A garden is a poem written with flowers on earth."

"Food If food comes with a labelthat's warning enough you shouldn't eat it."

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

"Jealousy [10w] Jealousy's like being reprimanded for a crime you haven't committed."

"The Universe Begins and Ends in Us If a telescope could see beyond the edges of the universe,we would see ourselves looking into a telescope trying to see beyond the edges of universe."

"Show Up [10w] I've waited for you all my life ~show up already!"

"Evolution of Love [10w] Love evolved from when one monkey handed another a blossom."

"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."

"Western Hypocricy I laugh at the hypocrisy of this western world that only expects the Muslims and Jews to act more Christian, while they continueto revel in the carnage of their heathen ways."

"Rice-a-Roni: The San Francisco treat... ...the other treat, of course, being anal penetration."

"Evil [10w] Believing you're evil sets into motion the wheels of self-destruction."

"Diana Sporting a Remington Sendero SF II {Couplet} Over one shoulder hung a rifle, over the other swung a brace of pheasants;She was a no-nonsense breed of sniper, a viper with no time for fangs of conscience."

"Prevailing Wins [10w] Truth prevails in private, bullshit in public, integrity in spirit."

"The Poet's Mind In so many ways I walk ablaze in a maze,my eyes in a glaze, my mind in a daze,this poem's just a phrase in the latency phase,rephrase, rephrase, rephrase..."

"Overheard at McDonalds "I am become death, the destroyer of worlds.Are you going to finish those fries?"