Speed & Power

Speeders on the roads
Don’t know why they’re speeding;
Their purposeless sense of urgency
Fired by the power of their machines
Drives them to show off their prowess
With reckless disregard to others’ safety.
02.29.12

Joy & Simplicity

True joy
Is always simple.
02.28.12

Teaching & Emancipating

There are those who teach to learn
And there are those who teach to earn
And there are those who teach to emancipate
The indoctrinated minds of us adults who
Were inculcated with atavistic dogmas
While intellectually defenseless children;
It is this latter group that societies exterminate.
02.27.12

Personal & Impersonal

If medicine should become impersonal
Doctors will become technicians
Patients will become clients
Procedures will supplant thinking
And treatments will no longer be individualized.
02.26.12

Sleep & Life

Everything that increases sleep
Shortens life without shortening time.
02.25.12

Winners & Losers

Those who win and think themselves winners
Become eventual losers
And those who lose and think themselves losers
Are forever losers
For both winning and losing
Are naught but educational courses
In the schools of life
Whose only graduating goal is wisdom.
02.24.12

Subtle & Blunt

A subtle hint
Is more powerful
Than a blunt statement.
02.23.12