Pain & Wine

Pain
Is the essential food of art
And joy is its wine.
03.14.14

Bureaucracy & Soul

Bureaucracy
When uncensored
Feeds on the human soul
Until it becomes morbidly obese,
Enslaving its human subjects
Promoting inefficiency
And hindering life.
03.13.14

Classes & Countries

All countries have four classes of citizens:
a) Those who willingly obey the rules and laws
    unaware of supervision or fear of retribution
b) Those who obey because they heed supervision
    and fear retribution
c) Those who readily disobey whenever there is no supervision
    or fear of retribution
d) And those who blatantly disobey, elusive of supervision
    and evasive of retribution;
The first two classes of citizens hold their countries up
And the last two classes pull their countries down.
03.12.14

Humanity & Separation

Three distances separate humanity:
Physical, emotional, and intellectual;
The easiest to narrow down
Are the physical and emotional
And the hardest is the intellectual.
03.11.14

Corruption & Enlightenment

Corruption
Entails the belief
That one is above the law;
Hence, the antidote to corruption
Is not more laws, but more enlightenment.
03.10.14

Thinking & Facts

Thinking and deciding
Without studying all the facts
Is a most dangerous human habit.
03.08.14

Intellect & Inertia

Creative minds
Bring smiles to tears
Tether past to future
And smite intellectual inertia.
03.08.14