I’ve started blind copying my wife on emails to myself
A class marker is always written in permanent marker; in a classless society the permanent marker
Because a man is only as good as h… you’ll know he means what he says when you see him do it But on social media a man is only his words
In real life we used to say I’ll see your talk and raise you action but that was just too risky Preferring no stakes
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
Liberalism deepened by religion Religion widened by liberalism Until the body and soul politic Is so deep That it swallows our fears
Imagine all the things They wouldn’t allow If they were invented now Anything fast: No motorcycles
A sliver of moon follows us home in the car How nice to be fooled
My shampoo is nine– ty nine percent natural, as if that were enough
What is the culture war really bei… The battlefield is littered with c… Those clues are our dead bodies That still walk And talk
Fox News said it was “Fair and B… which supposedly meant that it was… because it was balanced but really it meant that it was fa… because it wasn’t balanced–
What else can I say? Is for most people a rhetorical qu… But the poet takes it literally Making it the exception that prove… That everything is a metaphor for…
In regular old capitalism we used to say time is money In the attention economy we say
God doesn’t make mistakes; God makes people People make mistakes And learn from them that God doesn’t make mistakes
Everyone wants to live forever because fear is self-perpetuating No one wants to overcome the fear… because courage is selfless
