#soul-searching

"Illinois State Motto State sovereignty, national union.Life begins and ends with corruption."

"Goat Fucking for Dummies You gently fuck a female goat ~you got to ram the malesto make any progress."

"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..."

"Buddha (Haiku) Buddha, Enlightened,I rub your belly to blessmy Lotto ticket."

"Poetry vs. Prose [10w] Prose is the bread of imagination;poetry is the wine."

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

"Hearts Hearts of hope and of promiseHearts filled with dreams and whim,These are the hearts of loversUnguarded,Standing out on a limb.Hearts unmended and brokenHearts scarred to stone and steel,These are the hearts of loversArmored,Being unable to feel."

"Unless you're a lesbian... [10w] Feminism is not a sustainable position without giving up love."

"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"

"Getting Even Bring a gun to a knife-fight,Bring a nuke to a war.Even if you don't win,You'll even the score.““”̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿’̿’̵͇̿̿з=(•̪ⓧ)=ε/̵͇̿̿/̿ ̿ ̿ ̿ ̿"

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

"Hemidemisemiquaver [10w] The composer evened the score by ending in a hemidemisemiquaver."

"Angels vs. Fools [10w] Au contraire: Angels rush in where fools fear to tread."

"Soulmate [10w] When you meet your soulmate,God's walked into the room."

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

"Time is Not a Constant [10w] Time speeds up, crawls, compresses and expands depending on mood."

"The Bard's Haikus about Haiku Listen to Shakespeare,'Iambic pentameterand haiku don't mix.'A fool thinks himself to be wise, but a wise mannever writes haiku.If you tickle usdon't we laugh? If you wrong usshall we not haiku?The good men dolives after them; the evil'sinterred with haikus.Some are born great, some achieve greatness, some scribblesome shitty haikus."

"Dull Poetry Dulls the Mind [10w] Poetry penetrates dullness when whetted on the stone of imagination."

"Office Depot: Taking Care of Business... ...with short breaks, bad management and no job advancement opportunities."

"Children Learn to Love and Hate A child understands love by three months and hate by three years.How the child processes that understandingwill shape his character for the next seventy."