You’ll know whether you’re there to make things better or to make yourself feel better by how you react when you’re told you can do better

I can’t just let go of my past I have to lose a tug of war and get third degree rope burns

Hell is other people Purgatory is other people’s money Heaven is money

What else can I say? Is for most people a rhetorical qu… But the poet takes it literally Making it the exception that prove… That everything is a metaphor for…

My whole life, I thought I’d done… Duly deputized by the law of the l… As enforced by the superego, for w… But due to unforeseen circumstance… When instead of always being due f…

Scientists insist that 95% of the… consists of undetectable, unknowab… because this belief makes their ca… Like you and me the little that they do know

Imagine the disappointment when we… both wearing Velcro singlets but each fashioned from the softer… with nary a hook between us

If you would remake the world In your own image Then I can only imagine You believe you’ve thought of ever…

We already had the unconscious– A vast mechanism to shield us from… And it is so vast Because we are so very wrong But now, with the internet

God’s not buying it Until you own it– Are we clear?

Knowing is half the battle but it’s always been left unsaid t… the other half is feeling We can now definitively say that you’ll know the battle’s been…

When I asked Permission to come aboard The ship of fools They said Everything is permitted

Knowledge is power said the company man of the hour on whom we all soon began to sour for institutional knowledge is dou…

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

As ever There is the easy way And the hard way The hard way Is being condemned to a freedom