The devil’s one job Is making you an offer You can’t refuse And there’s only one thing The devil can’t offer

Friendly competition is heaven on… Culture war is hell on wheels Of time But now that our culture’s wheels… We’ll soon be out of time

In East Germany they had a planned economy and an old joke: I pretend to work You pretend to pay me

Even when religion is about the symbolic it must guard against fundamentalism But when religion

You’ll know you’re but a prop In someone else’s mise en scene When, after the photo op And the choir’s said amen You’re left to close up shop

When they locked down the third pl… (Houses of worship) And made the first two places (Home and work) Into one place

All self-help books boil down to this: You can’t fold a piece of paper more than 7 times but if you could fold it 103 times

In the confession booth I have a confession to make so that I can receive forgiveness In the show trial I have a confession to make up

The devolution to a permanent ruling class of the progressive educated elite will not be televised Because the elite cut their cords

An army marches on its stomach but it convoys on its internal combustion engine Still, the way to

Nothing is Risk-free Except hell

Life was once a high-wire act without a net Now it’s tennis without a net

We are sleeping on God And our slumber is What keeps God up at night Worried we won’t make it home Where the heart is

Those who can do talk shows Those who can’t teach others to show, don’t tell

We’d all been taught As the temps got hot That all was for naught And that was our lot So, we’d cashed out and bought