#self-improvement

"The Poet's Job [10w] + {Couplet} Trigger memory, explode an emotion;the poet must create commotion....................................................­....................."

"Wrong Number [10w] There is no such thing as dialing a wrong number."

"Suicide Note [10w] "Don't ask why I committed suicide.Question why everybody doesn’t."

"Say This to Her/Him and Just See What Happens... *I want to kiss you in places I've never kissed you before."

"God is Great [10w] God found me in a dumpster and made me holy."

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

"When you concentrate your energy purposely on the future possibility that you aspire to realize, your energy is passed on to it and makes it attracted to you with a force stronger than the one you directed towards it."

"Flattery [10w] Flattery is the only passport that will get you everywhere"

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

"Off the Hook True story...A cop pulls me over for speeding.He says, "What's the hurry?"I say, "I'm running awayfrom a bad marriage."He laughs and says, "Drive carefully."The officer lets me go.Beyond the practical lesson thatmaking a policeman laugh may get you off the hook,there's a certain poetry here in the unexpected connection ~for what is a poemif not a moment of surpriseworth retelling."

"Imitation [10w] Art imitates life.Life imitates art.I just imitate imitation."

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

"In and Out [10w] Our infant blanket in the externalization of our mother's womb.ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ ♛ ღ Intruth, we should be married under,sling our newborn babiesinand after deathbe shrouded in the same infant blanketwe were taken home from the hospital in."

"Beloved Poetry [10w] Write poetry like it’ll convince your beloved who to marry."

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

"Excuse The bureaucrat's excuse, 'If I have to make an exception for you,I have to make an exception for everybody else',doesn't apply to me because I exceptional."

"Tonight is For the Dying I've seen it grow dark ten-thousand times, yet never once mourned the loss of light, until tonight. Tonight I'm dying, dying, dying; before morn I may be ash in an urn, I know the light will return, maybe keeping ablaze its promise to others. Maybe not.If I had my druthers, the others would bedying, dying, dying, too,tonight."

"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"

"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."

"DNA [10w] DNA's the last hope of our species,spiraling to extinction."