It was an open secret that on his day off Sisyphus liked to go downhill skii…

Peace is not the goal It is the byproduct of the goal The goal is obvious Which is why we can’t see it

The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published

Life has given us pumpkins ostensibly for carving and smashing but I smell an opportunity though the opportunity cost

Blathering on about the threat of the other is a means of slathering on the notion that blocks the light: If I am not what you lack

I’m converting to Judaism but I’m a Scorpio so, I have a head start

Gaslight, gas bright First-class I seek tonight I wish I may I wish I might Have the wishful thought

The modernist thesis– You’ll know it when you see it The post—modernist antithesis— I can’t believe my own eyes Our current and nameless synthesis…

A fishbowl made of screen glass is a fishbowl made for one that is magically adjacent to every other fishbowl in this world we conjured where

A fair competition Is one in which No one can win So that everyone Has an equal chance

Forecasting the rain in Spain is mainly done in vain

Thanks to his bifocals Ben Franklin could see that while we might look like bald… up close we’re clearly turkeys

When my father-in-law dusted the cobwebs off our front p… they were back within the week It is hard to feel sorry for a spe… that has negligible capacities for…

When they said God is dead They just meant God is forbidden And like a fool

Like Ikea fur– niture, I am difficult to put together