MIstakes & Friends

Every honest mistake
Is a chance to make
A new friend.
11.30.10

Laws & Crooks

Laws and rules continue to multiply
In response to the creativity
Of criminals and crooks.
11.29.10

Writers & Readers

Even if readers stopped reading
The real writers would continue to write.
11.28.10

Size & Quality

Whenever ideal size is attained
Quality and efficiency diminish
With further increases in size.
11.27.10

Thinking & Procreation

If thinking
Were programmed
To precede procreation
The human race
Would have already expired.
11.26.10

Maintenance & Change

While age delights in classical maintenance
Youth is invigorated by rebellious change;
Therefore, you can measure the age of a soul
By how readily it looks forward to change.
11.25.10

Night & Tight

Under the cover of night
All skins are tight.
11.24.10

Nature & Programming

No one can change
Influence or rearrange
The intrinsic programming
Of human nature.
11.23.10

Think & Obey

Those who obey blindly
Do not think deeply
And those who think deeply
Do not obey blindly.
11.22.10

Age & Distance

Those who ridicule age
Will learn their lessons in reverse
For age is but youth seen from a distance.

Lesser & Better

The lesser
Who insults the better
Should always be tolerated
Because the better
Who is held to higher standards
Should not even notice the lesser’s insults.
11.20.10

Rest & Work

Most Homo sapiens
Unless reward is right
Prefer a lengthy rest
To long, hard work.
11.19.10

Delusions & Us

We must need our delusions
Because everyone of us
In his peculiar way
Is delusional.
11.18.10

Good & Bad Deaths

A bad death
Ruins a good life
And a good death
Enriches a poor life;
We should therefore endeavor
To try to die splendidly.
11.17.10

Misery & Species

There is no limit
To humanity’s miseries
And no other species in nature
Suffers as much as Homo sapiens do.
11.16.10

Delusions & Nurture

'Tis better to treat the one
Who thinks he’s great
As if he were great
Rather than sabotage
His nurturing delusions.
11.15.10

Behavior & Contagion

Bad behavior
Is contagious.
11.14.10

Intelligence & Genius

The main difference between
Genius and intelligence
Is hard work.
11.13.10

Thinking & Freedom

For any endeavor
To ensure competence
Study and training are required
Some sort of licensing, some certification
Or some sort of simple apprenticeship, at least…
But freethinking seems to be an exception;
Families, schools, religions, ideologies, cultures, nations
Teach us to think as they do, disallow independent thinking
And yet we all graduate as if we were highly trained thinkers
And believe our thoughts as if they were absolute truths…
And since we have all been reared
By some community, in some place, and at some time
We, then, have all been reared to reject freethinking
And in that lack of freedom to think independently
Lurk the seeds of our unending conflicts…
11.12.10

Age & Youth

Age is nothing but youth
Seen from a distance.
11.11.10

Change & Pretense

The idea that anyone can change
Who and what we really are
Is preposterous;
Only individuals can truly change
Who and what they are;
All the rest is petty pretense
To appease societal scrutiny.
11.10.10

Use & Abuse

The nicer we are to others
The more they will use us
And abuse us.
11.09.10

Beauty & Prosperity

Beauty and prosperity are hidden handicaps;
The more beautiful and prosperous we are
The less are we prone to struggle
In order to improve ourselves.
11.08.10

Fantasy & Reality

In youth we fantasize
In age we realize;
For fantasy is the rock-&-roll of youth
And reality, the tango of age.
11.06.10

Body & Soul

I must remind myself that my body
(That borrowed tool of my soul)
Is not really my body;
It ages, deforms, sickens
Then leaves me all alone
And returns to atoms.
11.05.10

Myth & Theory

In our quest for knowledge
We ride myth as our horse
And wield theory as sword.
11.04.10

Fatigue & Imagination

Heed fatigue;
It diminishes everything
Especially imagination.
11.03.10

Words & Truths

Unless one reads between the lines
One cannot understand the meanings
Behind the colorful camouflage of words;
In public addresses, the number of words
Is directly proportional to the sheltered truths.
11.02.10

Truth & Silence

Unless it is stated
It is as if it didn’t happen;
We hide so many truths
With precision silence.
11.01.10