A poem is like a dream In that it shows us the truth Without telling it Because, truth be told There’s no telling
We used to worry about selling out; now we’re terrified of not buying in
The second half of life is a second chance to give as much as I have received
God is one And God is the one that got away But God is still the one that’s got a way
Human beings have always used the symbolic to navigate the real; until recently we did so by imagining that the symbolic is rea… whereas scientists imagine that
Modern research methods have detec… that there’s no such thing as a ba… leaving scientists puzzled as to w… the whole bunch is still spoiled
Coffee is for the middle-aged; we need both to shit and get shit done
The Imaginary: I disagree with what you say but I will defend to the death your right to say it The Symbolic:
No one loves a woman like her man and no one loves capitalism like its Marxists In each case
As the public version of one’s pri… social media is the recurring drea… of showing up at work without any… come true
I don’t care about birds but I thrill when the squirrels can’t get to the birdseed
Everyone has a gift in life and mine is knowing exactly how much I can bid in a silent auction without winning
If there is one thing we can all agree on it’s moral certainty
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
I won the day when my antagonist branded me a reactionary because, of course, I’m an overreactionary
