#teachings

"Thank You Dick Wolf [10w] TV crime shows taught me it’s best to lawyer up."

"Genesis {Couplet} God spoke the world into existence, reifying an abstraction.Now the Creator's had second thoughts and wishes to utter a retraction."

"North Dakota Haiku "My bib overallslook spiffy at a weddingor a funeral."

"Tickled Pink Today,without thinking,I filled my half-empty fish tank, to its brink.Having doubled the size of his universe,my Siamese bettais quite tickled pinkThe same thing happens when you fill my half-empty world with your love.Bai, keep pourin'!"

"The AP Stylebook is Useless {Couplet} I can't abbreviate abbreviation nor know how to initialize an acronym,I can find the contraction for contraction nor the précis for a homonym."

"Visual Pun [10w] Example of visual pun:cloud shaped like a banana peel."

"New York Haiku "My monthly rent checkis more than you will make inyour fucking lifetime."

"Humans vs. Monkeys [10w] + [10w] Baby monkeys are much more clever than a human babies.Human babies leap ahead because of their capacity for language."

"Speak to the Head [10w] + {Couplet} Tis of no fucking availTo speak to the tail."

"Delusion vs. Truth Delusions are what really set you free;the truth is a choke hold."

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

"Pun vs. Puny [10w] + {Couplet} "His penis was a pun,judging by the predictable groans.The hours set by innuendos,the seconds by the moans."

"2D or Not 2D [10w] The best thing about a two-dimensional world is nobody's fat."

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

"New York City [10w] + [10w] + {Couplet} In fast-paced New York Cityeven the bubbling brooks babble.The Hudson and East River run rabid,skirting the rabble"

"What is God? [17] [10w] God has a fondness for cosmology and carbon-based life forms."

"The Poet's Way Are we ever sure what we do,will endure and get its due?No.But we do it anyway.For that is the poet's way."

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

"Informal HP Survey: Should Poetry Rhyme? O.K., readers, anybody who thinks poetry should rhymeplease tap your caneor jiggle your walker."

"Selfie [10w] For the millennial generationa selfie is a family portrait."