The arts say What can’t be said While agitprop tells us What can be said In a game of
As you age getting enough exercise in futility becomes more and more a portent
Hook-up apps have given intimacy all the allure of an oil change
Heart cancer is vanishingly rare because a heart of gold only spreads love, not gold while a mind of gold inevitably spreads all the way
They let Potter get away with any… but somehow I get expelled for flo… that a wizard can’t have the same… even though zero (magic) is only half as large as double ze…
They call it open heart surgery But no one says open brain surgery Because, by default Our minds are closed And the only way to change minds
Money is an illusion that fools al… We only have one currency to spend And it is time At the time of judgment day We will only be asked one question…
In East Germany they had a planned economy and an old joke: I pretend to work You pretend to pay me
The bell curve is the Serpent With the lump in the middle Who ate Adam and Eve By convincing us we’re all mostly… But we’ve proven indigestible
Everyone wants to live forever because fear is self-perpetuating No one wants to overcome the fear… because courage is selfless
But surely, you’ve noticed by now That all progress is incremental Across increments of time Because all progress is time-bound And the unfolding of time
On paper Scratch that On screen The devil looks unbeatable Since odds always favor
When I got to the cave at the top of the mountain and asked the hermit What is the meaning of life? she said
It turns out that the afterlife is only as long as you can keep the exit interview go…
When they told me I was one of many I took them to mean I was the one
