An Anarchy Of Aphorisms:
Snippets From The Cutting Room Floor
The universe has
a millions signs
that say no,
but
only a few
that say yes.
*****
Everything is fragile
except the rope
around your neck.
*****
Just another
day in paradise:
exciting as a
hole in the ground.
*****
Please send me
a difficult woman
with a mind
like a razor
and a kiss
like a shotgun
blast.
*****
If you think
with your dick
expect a few
headaches.
*****
The only girl
I ever loved,
I never met.
*****
All the world’s misery
is caused by people
who wear suits.
*****
Sometimes, you must
must open a window
in your soul
just to let a little
oxygen into your life.
*****
My ancestors
marched to war.
I flew.
Maybe there is
such a thing
as progress.
*****
Why do we
fall in love
instead of
rise in love?
Because there’s
no such thing
as a rise with
a thud at the end.
*****
Cats know everything
but divulge nothing.
Just ask one.
*****
If I took up
selling coffins,
people would
quit dying.
*****
Enough now,
I am moving to
Lake Michigan
where I will
hunt wolverines
for a living
and learn
to eat ice.
*****
Have to flee,
there is a warrant
out for me for
everything I
never did.
*****
So difficult
some mornings
to face the
ugly emptiness of
the sober page.
*****
Wanted:
a future
without
a perhaps.
*****
The Law is the Law;
shit is shit;
do the math.
*****
Try not to piss away
your life on nonsense.
*****
While I wasn’t looking,
the whole earth was
zoned commercial.
*****
There is always
another corner
around the next
corner.
*****
Never let clocks
control your life.
*****
Waking up
every day
is another
chance at
Spring.
*****
Wherever you go,
you carry along
all the places
you’ve ever been.
*****
If you trample the world,
don’t expect it
to kiss your feet.
*****
We are
breeding people
who will
have no place
in the world.
*****
It takes
a life’s work
to recognize
the mystery
of the obvious.
*****
Much that you see
isn’t for your eyes.
*****
Exactly how long
does forever last?
*****
I keep waiting
unsure of what
I am waiting for.
*****
Sometimes, you walk
through doorways
in your mind
and can’t get out.
*****
When you are sure
you can’t stand more,
the worst is just beginning.
*****
We must learn to appreciate
our fatal savagery.
*****
Don’t disrespect alcohol.
It provides consolation
for the inconsolable.
Not a small feat.
*****
Sometimes, art must be foul
in order to scrub the soul clean.
*****
There are no
brave, new worlds;
just this one,
over and over,
until seen clearly
at last.
*****
There really is
no reason
to know yourself.
*****
Death waits
patiently as
a dead cat.
*****
I hope to die
in a flutterment
of butterfly kisses;
softest demise.
*****
Nothing
matters
anymore.
