[A Cup of Witticism]
1— There’s an old saying
that’s quite true:
‘If there’s a will, there’s a way’;
alas,
make sure you make room for a way
though.
6/2004
2— People
don’t choose their fears—;
their
jealousies, envies and hates.
do.
3— For every
effect there is a basis,
A front, a
beginning—and to find
Its end, you
must first find its opening.
4— For every outcome, there is
created an outlay, or
Expenditure—and profit; and those who
will kill
To keep it, guarding it as if it was a
lover.
5— Faith believes, it also
trusts—,
and it also tests.
6—
Evil breeds evil—thus, the initiator
has something
to look
forward to…unless he gets lost
in its dark
tunnel…
7—
There
are things more powerful than Hell
and its demons: it’s called:
self-interest.
8— Sometimes we’re in the
mouth of the whale—
and still, other times we are running
from the lions;
seldom are we in the jungle undisturbed;
thus,
evolution is correct in this manner,
the strongest
will survive…but praying won’t hurt.
9— When there is pain, there
is a reason for it
And sometimes we don’t care to seek it
out and that
Is when you get more pain, and
sometimes, that is
What we need, to correct what is
wrong.
1/25/2006 [#1105]
10— I hasten to say—statements
into man’s character
also refers to his soul!...
11— Character is often molded
more by
self-interest; thus, leaving man
chained to a clock
that is already cracked.
12— Imagery in poetry, is the
phoenix in the poem,
lest you clip its wings and
lose its rise from its own
ashes…
#1122 1/29/06
13— Poets always seem to be
looking for a lost
shoe— save, they don’t jump
out of
windows first…!
14— Was God a boy scout? No one
thinks so but Americans.
#1136 1/06
15— Being unhappy is the norm
for some people;
to point it out, is simply
throwing gun-powder
into a fire.
[#1157] 2/2/2006
16— We kill a million Christmas
Trees to
celebrate one Man’s birthday each year,
he is special of course,
and is worthy of this ritual.
And some folks have
complained;
but to be quite honest, the
IRS, cuts more down for
taxes.
#1162 2/2/2006
17— Before you get too old and
can’t remember,
it might be wise to figure
out how you want to
live, and live it. There is
nothing worse than a sad poem
about dreaming of doing it.
#1203 2/12/2006
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30—
Hopeful poets die hopeful,
standing around waiting to
give poetry readings when
they could be living—getting
high off of life.
#1199
2/11/06
31—
Emptiness in Kyoto
God created man from emptiness,
Who created form from the emptiness—
God used—and the ‘form’ had eyes,
Like the sea had islands; and it was
good.
#1200 2/10/2006
32—
Delightful Rebellion
…many youths are drunk
with rebellion—
as if welded into it. My
advice is: get off the drunken
stage, before you fall off.
#1204
2/12/2006
33—
Cold Eyes
The Devil wiz’s along
The edge of earth,
With cold eyes.
#1206 2/13/2006
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