#Spirit

"The Phenomenon of Life {Couplet} The potter's some man of clay who's molding clay,a robot making an automaton;Every day we recreate ourselves from what bricks we're made,how wondrous life's phenomenon!"

"Rat Trap Haiku 'Hmm, 12 by 13,4 by 9. Oy! You call thisrat trap an apartment?"

"Telekinetic Poker Players Telekinetic poker players have a tell when they're bluffing:they always raise you."

"Double-Dipping [10w] Double-dip in righteousness and delight in the here and herafter."

"Lost & Found of Love We cannot forfeit what was not truly ours to begin with.You can only lose yourself in the heartbreak of love lostand find yourself againinthe miracle of love regained."

"Taste [10w] + [10w] "If you have sophisticated taste, you like what I like.If you're a Neanderthal, you will love what I hate."

"Bruges Belgium Haiku Behind a stack of grey Lego bricksyou wheeze up Belfry's 366 stepsand don't see a single bat."

"Amputees Smart phones and the internet are the prosthetics our century cannot live without.Until we can put them down to take a quiet walk in the woods,we are all amputees."

"Sometimes Magic is What Disappears [10w] + {Couplet} Love's tragic, not ecstatic;with finespun change, disappears the magic."

"Fighting For Your Life [10w] 'Everything will be alright,'doesn't mean we stop the fight."

"Alaska State Motto North to the Future.We got highest rape and STD-rate in the nation."

"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."

"Lubbock, Texas Haiku Oil wells, Hub of the Plains.Stinks like an armpit."

"The Poet's Disease My body atrophies.My mind swells.Imagination's become my crutch."

"How to Get Girls into Bed When I take a new girl out on a dateI tell them I slipped poison into their wineand the antidote is on my penis."

"Russian, Umerzhurnalistka Someone who too many questions for his own good. Literally, 'Dead journalist'."

"Nomad {Couplet} When your roots grow from the outside in,home becomes whatever place you're in."

"Hate [10w] Love cannot hate eradicate ~only a more ruthless hate can."

"Madness [10w] Madness isn't an objective state,it is a cultural bias."

"Present {Couplet} Our present is the dissipating despair of our past mingled with the promise of our future we hope will last."