#teachings

"God May Grant Your Wishes Daily [10w] Pray for sunshine at night and moonbeams when you wake."

"Teenagers [10w] Teenagers are the lone survivors of a ruthless hormonal holocaust."

"Masochist [10w] A masochist goes to massage parlor seeking a tragic ending."

"Pale Oak Leaves Scatter Pale oak leaves scatteraround my father's grave."For this I pay $30/month maintenance?"

"Wretched [10w] Intelligence without compassion is an invitation to a wretched life."

"Poetry Should Dance [10w] Let poetry dance ~neither outpace it nor let it lag."

"Enough [10w] Enough's the only thing most people can't get enough of."

"Poets and their Thin Skins Every poet is thin-skinned when it comes to criticism ~without ithow could he ever possess the astute sensitivity about lifeto even write poetry?"

"Who Isn't [10w] Psychotherapy's powerless once you assume you're smarter than the therapist."

"From the Slobodan Milošević interview during the the Hague Tribunal : 'What are your hobbies?' [10w] "I enjoy gardening because weeding reminds me of ethnic cleansing."

"Learning from Experience Learning from experience means, 'Boy, did I just fuck up!"

"Old People [10w] At the mere mention of death they gasp for breath."

"Athens, Texas Haiku Blackeyed Pea Capital of the World.Yup, just another shithole."

"Evil Thoughts [10w] Believing 'You're either with us or against us' is evil."

"Ars Poetica: Dovetailing Collage [10w] Poems should be a dovetailing collage not a linear cohesion."

"They'd Rather Switch [10w] Hearing is wasted on the blind;sight, on the deaf."

"Wisconsin State Motto Forward.Leading the nation in drunk driving and Cheesehead hats."

"There's More Than Two Choices [10w] Don't take the road less traveled;blaze your own path."

"Brewing Poetry Comma sips between the lines,insights percolate into a 10w,a latte sonnet here, a cappuccino couplet there.A few smartass epiphanies,and something new in every brew.One final fix,voilà, the poem is fixed!I adore this caffeine,that alchemises the extraordinary into the routine,and vice versa with the unforseen.It turns blue aquamarine,and words into Mexican jumping beans."

"An Enirely Different Matter [10W] Four states of matter:solid, liquid, gasand ffuzzy-wuzzy."