There is no Status quo But there is Status

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

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

Domination is feudal But resistance seems futile And lo, we canoodle With the large standard poodle We all know as boodle

When I ask What’s wrong? It’s always short for What’s wrong with me?

I thought they’d finally say Mea culpa But they still just said Me

Serve (one another) and Play (together)

Privacy is when everyone can see you but no one is watching Surveillance is when no one can see you

Early on a Friday morning Just before I awakened My rabbi said, in a dream So, this is the way the Torah wor… But before he could explain

We hit it off: she’d declawed her cats and I’d plucked my cacti’s needles

When women need a break from the m… they must be able to endure a whole lot of his navel gazing

In the past Anyone on the far right or far lef… Could look all the way across the… And see their opposite On the far right or far left

The most hellish aspect of hell is how some of the people there don’t mind it at all

Two roads diverged the one to the left leading up the garden path the one to the right leading down the garden path

Liberalism deepened by religion Religion widened by liberalism Until the body and soul politic Is so deep That it swallows our fears