#wisdom

"If you're reading this...Congratulations, you're alive.If that's not something to smile about,then I don't know what is."

"Committees [10w] A committee sits in a rectangle and talks in circles."

"Shit Poetry [10w] Poetry without grace of expression is just so much shit."

"Oppressor vs. Oppressed [10w] Love somtimes disintegrates into becoming the oppressor or the oppressed."

"Extra Crispy Deranged Free Range Chickens "Hey, I may be delusional in believing you're delusional,but one thinks for sure, the person who bothers to read this shit is delusional."

"I finally know the difference between pleasing and loving, obeying and respecting. It has taken me so many years to be okay with being different, and with being this alive, this intense. (xxvi)"

"Never pause unless you have a reason for it, but when you pause, pause as long as you can."

"The best way to see Faith is to shut the eye of Reason."

"Louisiana Dynamite Fishin' {10w] "Uncle Jimbo sez, if dey don't float it ain't fishin'."

"If lightning is the anger of the gods, then the gods are concerned mostly about trees."

"Now that I’m 33.3 years old, the days of blue and green are behind me. I have left the earthy and entered into the purple phase of my life."

"Caminante, no hay puentes, se hace puentes al andar. (Voyager, there are no bridges, one builds them as one walks.)"

"Hate Recycle Bin When you empty your hate recycle binit frees up more memory to write even better poetry.Just try it and tell me this isn't true!"

"Talented [10w] Being called talented brings with it more hatred than applause."

"Mockingbirds don’t do one thing but make music for us to enjoy. They don’t eat up people’s gardens, don’t nest in corncribs, they don’t do one thing but sing their hearts out for us. That’s why it’s a sin to kill a mockingbird."

"Kansas Haiku "Ya' know Superman'sfrom here and Jor-El could'vesent him to New York."

"The Poet as Enchantress [10w] + {Couplet} The poet is an enchantress,with or without a dress."

"What Ever Happened to Stupid? [10w] ‘I’m only human’,has become everybody’s license to fuck up."

"Yams vs. Sweet Potatoes vs. Cassava vs. Popeye [10w] "I am that I am that I am a yam."

"Do not look for happiness outside yourself. The awakened seek happiness inside."