#soul-searching

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

"Tennessee State Motto Agriculture and Commerce.Where the KKK was bornand the most popular pick up line is, 'Nice tooth!"

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

"The Dangers of Second Hand Smoke "Second hand smoke can be harmful becauseif you don't put out that fucking cigaretteI'm smashing your head open with this baseball bat."

"Breaking with Tradition is Tradition You can take the poem outside of tradition,but you can't take tradition out of the poem."

"Murder [10w] Two coats of paint doen't get rid of a ghost."

"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."

"Flood of Feeling {Couplet} A flood of feeling is a poem,created from daydreaming in the zone.The levees break, emotions snake,from imagination's ocean who sets the stakes."

"Cancer [10w] It's odd that the cancer that kills you is you."

"Perdue: It takes a tough man to make a tender chicken... ...it's all about steroids and crowd management."

"Crying in the Rain If you cry in the raindoes anybody but you know you're unhappy?"

"Today I Learned: Delete Today I learnedwhen you delete stuff on your computerit still resides on your hard drive.It's sort of like getting divorcedbut that bitch still lives in your house."

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

"Objective Journalism Foreign journalists will always compromise objectivity to preserve relationships that give them better access."

"Death [10w] What the the dying most resent is life goes on."

"The Fate of Prodigies [10w] Early to peak, early to deal with obsolescence and obscurity."

"Jesus [10w] "Sorry to keep you hanging,but it's just our nature."

"Poets and Competitiveness [10w] "I'm the only poet I need to be better than."

"Sometimes it's Love and Sometimes the... [10w] ...tingling sensation of excitement, happiness, and nervousnessis jock itch."

"Money [10w] The root of all evil has a well earned reputation."