Johnny Cash is going to Jackson; I have been to Jacksonville

Because it’s so hellacious transmuting lead into gold the people pleaser finds it heavenly to degrade gold into lead

I was one of the ones who craved religion without religion This, apparently was easy to arrange But now that I’m longing for

A wedding ring is a mood ring that never changes color reminding us that a husband should always feel

At first we thought This changes everything We weren’t exactly wrong But, of course Everything is highly adaptable

If you count the rings on a tree stump it will tell you the cost of doing business

Charlie Brown wants To believe Lucy wants To deceive But maybe, just maybe

As the public version of one’s pri… social media is the recurring drea… of showing up at work without any… come true

Life is simple; the meaning of life is complicated As a man I’m a simple creature but I’ve been married long enough… that women are complicated

I may not be deep but I compensate for it by getting deep into the weeds

Desire is a tautology rendering each of us a failed ouroboros as dogs chasing our own tails

There is hiding yourself and there is hiding from yourself; the former is often

The truth staring us in the face Is always our own reflection– Seeing ourselves backwards Providing just enough distance For us to acknowledge the truth

The human capacity for love is perfectly equaled by the human capacity for aggression The chances that these two traits would have been selected for

And so I wake in the morning and I stay inside and I take a deep breath and I let out a sigh and I stream from the top of my ru…