1. There is light in every dream we have in darkness.

2. Pleasant or painful, all experiences are as good as cash saved for a long rainy day.

3. The meaning of life, if any at all, is to create a meaning for life.

4. All human relationships are merely a matter of words: the situation is always determined by how, where, when and what words or nonwords are uttered by whom.

5. Money is as much a number-play to the rich as a death-dance to the poor.

6. A house for sale is never a home, while a heart unoccupied is a hotel for rent.

7. Freedom is the thin distance between the fleeing mouse and the chasing cat.

8. Love may be 99% honey and 1% money, while marriage is definitely otherwise.

9. True wealth is measured by the number of times you say no or take a shower.

10. Birth throws us out into different times whereas death recalls us back into the same place.

11. One most rewarding self-entertainment is masturbating with the idea of death.

12. Those who carve their love on their chestbones often fall in love with those who throw their love together with their used lipsticks or handkerchiefs.

13. This is not simply a grammatical game of changing the voice: every man loves a woman, but a woman is not loved by every man, and et cetera or vice versa.

14. Many still very much alive are stone dead; many already stone dead are still very much alive.

15. On the stage of life, we may not be able to choose the play, but we can choose the roles to play.

16. Comedy can come without romance or finance, but tragedy has to do with either or both.

17. Growth is painful because it means a series of deaths of our pasts, while death can be pleasant because it may result from a series of births of our presents.

18. Misfortune is a peculiar privilege.

19. In memories, roses always look fresher, while thorns less sharp.

20. What we see or read has always been so edited that the truth remains only in the mind of history unwritten.

21. You may have everything except disease or nothing except money.

22. Besides winds, fish can also create bubbles on the calm surface of the water.

23. Remaining an outsider can give you a sense of superiority, transcendence and peacefulness.

24. Time is the most meticulous makeup master of all.

25. Only those determined to reform others can hope to be reformed.

26. Parting is painful; even more so is having no one to part from.

27. He is happy who is not afraid not to be rich, sexual, famous or powerful.

28. Do some deep thinking about nothing every day, and you will stay healthy, wealthy and wise.

29. We all have some questions for heaven, but heaven always remains silent.

30. In this age of information, we are all fish swimming freely before the net is towed onto the boat.

31. With the whole world becoming so crowded with salespersons, it is high time to invent new alien buyers for our hearts and souls.

32. Good writing comes from the proper author from the proper place.

33. Political correctness means to see to say nothing as if it were news.

34. Democracy is a government of, by and for the few most manipulative.

35. You may have as many futures as new beginnings, but you can have only one past and one present.

36. Wisdom and religion are different in form but identical in essence: while religion is a ritualized social practice of wisdom, wisdom is an art of staying happy without having to be successful in a social sense.

37. Many stars have already died long before their light reaches our eyes.

38. Schooling is either an interruption or an intervention of learning.

39. There is no distinguishing between black and white, for the color of life is grey to begin with.

40. Like god who invented man to expel him from heaven, man invented money to drive himself to hell.

[first appeared in dANDelion]

Copyright 2008 by Changming Yuan

Changming Yuan grew up in rural China, authored three books before moving to Canada, holds a PhD in English and currently teaches writing in Vancouver; his poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Canadian Literature, Exquisite Corpse, Istanbul Literature Review, London Magazine, Poetry Salzburg Review, Private (Italy), Southern Ocean Review (New Zealand), Stylus (Australia), Taj Mahal Review and over 100 other literary publications.

who was the Celtic sungod which would make the phrase Lady Luck a
misnomer since Lord Luck would have to be the etymologically correct
name of the deity of chance for English-speaking people.

When William the Conqueror invaded, conquered, and occupied Engalnd in
1066 A.D., he brought over the French card game Poque which most
likely involved a lot of luck to win, meaning the sungoddess Lady Luck
would be shining down on you in all her glory.

Outside casinos, people work, earn money and worship a god, and inside
casinos, people play, win money and worship a goddess (Lady Luck) – two
totally different value systems – and if you are a practicing Christian, Jew,
or Muslem and you frequent casinos, you are a hypocrite and an apostate
who has become a pagan heathen infidel practicing idolatry and apostacy,
but if you practice witchcraft or some Goddess religion, casinos, temples
of paganism and barbarism, are your sanctum sanctorum, your holy of
holies, where you can become one with your deity or deities but only if
you get lucky or fate’s fickle finger favors you with divine providence
from the sungoddess Lady Luck in the form of Lady Luck’s provident rays
(fingers) beaming down on you and wrapping (gripping) you in Lady
Luck’s love – the golden touch which means that when you play, you just
can’t and don’t lose because you’re in the zone, in Lady Luck’s
Embrace or more precisely at one with Lady Luck – and as they say in the
pool hall, you have a mortal lock on winning, Mr. Lucky.

Also, take note that the phrase ‘good luck’ is double talk since luck is
always good and ‘good look’ is the same as saying ‘good good.’ The
phrase ‘bad luck’ is an oxymoron. To say ‘bad luck’ is the same as
saying ‘bad good.’ If you say you got lucky or you had a whole lot of luck,
you are not talking about something bad but something good. Luck
means Lady Luck is shining down on you and giving you a lovebeam
wrap. Luck does not mean it’s storming and you’re getting soaked -
losing your entire savings to the wheels of fortune.

Copyright 2008 by D.D. Dinardi

‘Bat’ is one word in the single-syllable soundset using the ‘b’ and ‘t’
consonants.

Here are other examples: bit, but, bet, bot, boot, beat, beet, boat, bout,
bite, bate.

Since the ‘gh’ is silent in ‘bought,’ you can include ‘bought’ in this
soundset.

Now let’s consider the soundset using the consonants ‘s’ and ‘t.’

Here you would have words like: sit, seat, soot, set, sat, site, sate, suit
sight and sought.

To create new words in this soundset, you would take unused consonant
and-vowel combinations in this soundset: seet, sut, syt.

And then you would give them a meaning or meanings.

You could do this with every single-syllable soundset possible in the English language and you could do it with double-syllable and
triple-syllable soundsets.

Take the word ‘bubble’ for an example of a double-syllable word from a
double-syllable soundset.

Here are other examples of this soundset: babble, bible, bobble and
bauble.

New words in this soundset could be: beeble, bibble, bebble and booble.

Now let’s look at a double-syllable soundset which has no existing words in the English language.

Consider the consonant-and-vowel combinations using the letters ‘b,’ ‘r,’
‘g’ and ‘l.’

Here are examples of new words: braggle, briggle bruggle, broggle, breggle, breegle, bryggle and broogle.

These are all new words which could have any meaning you want.

You could even add additional words by just using one ‘g.’

Or you could drop the ‘le’ and play with the single-syllable soundset of ‘b,’ ‘r’ and ‘g.’

Existing words in this soundset are brag and brig. You can make up new ones such as brug, breeg, breg and broog.

Have fun creating new words!!

2. Gruncle – great uncle

3. Wayoutrageous – mindblowingly outrageous

4. Spanglish: goofiarse – to goof off

5. Spanglish: un goofiador – a goof-off

6. Spanglish: siempre goofiando – always goofing off

7. Spanglish: Sabes what you haces? (Do you know what you’re doing?)

8. Spanglish: Fixelo. (Fix it.)

9. Ginormous: gigantically enormous

10. Tyrannocrat – a member of the tyrannocracy.

11. Tyrannocracy – the ruling-elite socialist party of liberal socialists called Democrats and of conservative socialists called Republicans, both of whom grow government by a relentless legislative onslaught legalizing the jungle savagery of political tribalism and economic cannibalism.

12. Idiosyncrat – a true believer in and a true practitioner of Idiosyncracy.

13. Idiosyncracy – the moral law of free will, good will and self-rule.

14. Lewdicrous – obscenely ludicrous

15. Metaphorism – a metaphor importing great knowledge and thus working poetically as an aphorism; a poetic aphorism; a metaphorical aphorism.

16. Hyperbolesm – a deceptively deceiving deceitful hyperbole; an overwhelming expression obfuscating reality

17. Hyperbolest – one who makes up and who uses hyperbolesms to create a false image of superior knowledge

18. Ambushwhack – a thoroughly successful surprise attack from all sides

1) Cliche: Don’t sweat the small stuff. Don’t small the sweat stuff.
(Meaninng: Don’t belittle hard work.)

2) Cliche: Been there. Done that.
New Saying: Been that. Done there.

3) If you can’t get even, get odd. If you can’t get odd, get out.

4) Whatever you do, have fun.
If you’re not having fun, you’re doing it wrong.

5) Have a nice life.
I hope all your dreams come true.
Just keep me the hell out of them.

6) The problem is not THE PROBLEM.
THE PROBLEM is your attitude toward the problem.

7) Catch 44
(Double Catch 22)

Catch 88
(Quadruple Catch 22)

9) Cliche: Put your money where your mouth is.
New Saying: Put your mouth where the money is.

10) Every dumbass question deserves a smartass answer.

11) Your heart’s in the right place but your head’s up your ass.

12) Uneeda addidude adusment.

13) If you can’t handle it, fondle it.

14) Common dollars can’t buy common sense.

15) Someone please tell me what planet I’m on.

16) Better pissed off than pissed on.

17) Catch 666: factory farms, slaughterhouses, meatprocessing plants.

18) Love is living up to another person’s expectations of what you have to do to make that person happy?

19) Hell is living with the wrong people!

20) If someone asks you ‘Who be you?’ tell them ‘I be me.’

21) Gamblers are goddess-junkies who worship Lady Luck.

22) God gave you free will to give up your free will to another’s free will.

23) So what do you do for a living? I do just fine.

24) I love you (but not as much as I love myself).

25) Marry looks and you marry a divorce!

26) Nobody loves you like my body loves you.

27) You’re not the only noodle in my soup.

28) Do you have a pucking froblem or just a froblem pucking?

29) Better ugly than stupid.

30) Freedom from pain and suffering is a crime against inhumanity.

31) And she said, “Strip off the veneer of civilization and come face to face with the primeval force of mother nature.”

32) If you put all of the agents of the government in a closet, is the government in the closet?

33) “We are not from the government,” said the people. “We are the government.”

34) “We are from the government,” said the agents of the government to the people. “And we are here to help you….out of everything you own because we need what’s yours more than you do.”

35) THE LAW OF NECESSITY = THE LAW OF THE JUNGLE = THE LAW OF THE SAVAGE = THE RULE OF LAW BY MEN ABOVE THE LAW.

36) When the rule of thumb replaces the rule of law, whose thumb will you be under?

37) If your first name is ‘Cray’ and your last name is ‘Zee,’ does that make you Crazy?

38) Divorce is a weapon men and women use to impoverish and enslave each other.

39) If a woman is a weapon of man destruction, a man is a weapon of woman destruction.

40) Ladies who happily embrace femininity, who are affectionate and compassionate, who greatly enjoy the company of gentlemen, who have exquisite taste in all things and who always act with supreme class in whatever they do, are truly rare. Likewise, gentlemen who happily embrace masculinity, who are affectionate and compassionate, who greatly enjoy the company of ladies, who have exquisite taste in all things and who always act with supreme class in whatever they do, are truly so.

41) Poetry is the craft of using pointed words to make a fatuously petty point, a preeningly pithy point or some other pointy point pointedly in between.

42) I am forever.

43) Los Angeles is a hysterical city of hallucinatory sorcery trying to conjure up a hilarious civilization.

44) Killing time writing thoughts and feelings on paper without craft may be fun but never art.

45) Flimflam chitchat, disposable prefabricated factory poetry, masquerades as experi-mental avant-garde (are)t, a deadbeat charade of the soap-opera poetry follies camouflaging the belly-up effluvia of trivolous frivia.

46) Get in the last word, get the last laugh.

47) Humanity falls ever deeper into an abyss of thundering desperation trying to soothe away the lingering unease shadowing the world.

48) ORDO AB CHAO (order out of chaos – meaning tyranny, slavery and poverty ([the fist] replacing freewill, goodwill and selfrule [the open hand]) is a demonic slogan of a diabolical conspiracy to set up a satanic one-world hierarchy of unconditional obedience to absolute authority on pain of death whose rules of fascist thumb are divide and conquer, the end justifies the means, might makes right, strong never wrong, survival of the fittest, and kill or be killed which altogether mean: Do as you’re told or tough shit, suffer and die!

49) Politics always was and always will be preparation for war. And war ever was and ever will be population control by killing off countless seeds of future generations.

50) The United States of America have become the Altered States of Consciousness.

51) The world is as it is. Or is it?

52) If disembodied beings from the spirit world are coming to get you, go into an altered state of consciousness and escape into a parallel universe.

53) If higher intelligences from hidden dimensions are directing the course of events of your life against your will, go into an altered state of consciousness and escape into the pure cosmic M(EYE)ND of G(AWE)D.

53) We are all civilly dead and this is the uncivil afterlife. (Civiliter Mortuous Non In Rerum Natura)

54) The-forces-of-darkness are the-powers-that-be behind closed doors who, while tyring to take over the whirled, think they own and run it.

55) Elitism means rubbing elbows with the elite of the elite at a discreet elite retreat.

56) Every person, including any artificial entity such as any corporation, any government and any all-capital-letter-name nul-tiel ens-legis, is a private-citizen merchant in commerce using false privy tokens loaded with badges of fraud to discharge obligations to pay money.

57) The ruse of discourse posing as poetry ploys the imagination.

58) All the time in the world won’t make you as happy as great company.

59) If you are feeling overwhelmed by it all, you have reason to celebrate.

60) Paid volunteers are pretty ugly and nothing much else.

61) Poets are trope troopers traipsing across a battlefield of conflicting emotions.

62) Ants climbing trees defines the s-ants of poetry.

63) As other art, poetry critiques culture and civilization privately.

64) Poems p(home) m(eye)nd.

65) Fart for fart’s sake stinks up the shiterary landscape.

66) Bukowski perfected bars poetica.

67) Temporary love expires at midnight. You can’t take it to the bank.

68) Inscrutable miasma art brainfogs the mind.

69) Artists book passage to the unpredictable imagination.

70) Poets dabble playfully in the impossibilities of language.

71)  Bacchus boycotts the party bar of con-temporary poetry.

72) If you think you’re smart enough to figure it all out yourself, then you’re dum enough to try.

73) If being different is different than you want to be, run with the bored horde.

74) Be ever ready to defend your country against your government.

75) The ruling elite above the law and the unruly outside the law flout the rule of law because they think they are a law unto themselves.

76) A noet is a semi-amateur poet starving in a garret practicing the loneliest art of writing semi-amateur poetry called noetry.

77) When politicians say ‘the truth of the matter is’ or ‘the fact of the matter is,’ you know they don’t know what they’re talking about.

78) If you’re smart enough to know that you don’t know, then you know you’re dum.

79) Why do poets think they’re prophets writing scriptures for posterity when posterity couldn’t care less?

80) The Diffy Cult of Poetry exclaims that the reader’s path to comprehension of a poem should be as difficult as the poet’s process of creating the poem so that the reader would experience that unexpectedly sudden epiphany exactly as the poet experienced it.

81) The future reflected on storefront windows is only visible to the absent-minded ones who are not the self-satisfied, self-content, self-centered, self-conscious, self-absorbed, self-obsessed self-advertised people.

82) Justice means and only means truth be told.

83) The avant-garde backwater poet-rebels are unruly artists in revolt undermining and overthrowing the literary status quo of the politically-correct post-modern poeseurs of the mainstream poetry establishment.

84) Capitalism – Mess with my capital ‘n’ I’ll cap ya.

85) Become a Secret-Society Mystery-School Initiate (NSE8) and meet interesting, exciting, other-dimensional beings by going into an altered state of consciousness, having an out-of-body after-death experience, travelling around the spirit worlds and communing with  disembodied beings and the spirits of the dead.

86) If you are angry at the world of injustice and inhumanity, you can make a difference, but only if you become a champion for justice and humanity and only if you stand up and speak out and fight with all you have for what you believe in your heart and mind will make your community and your country a better place to work, to play and to raise a healthy, prosperous and happy family.

87) To think things through you need to think things over.

88) If you are lonely and longing for bad new-fashioned human contact, watch television.

89) When you order a round of drinks, you are reenacting that moment when King Arthur ordered the first original round for himself and his knights at the Round Table while they discussed Lancelot and Guennevere fooling around behind the King’s back.

90) Spiritual matter and material spirit occupy the same space simultaneously all at the same time in unison together.

91) Status Quo Joe, a true conservative, likes things just the way they are.

92) Debunk mindjunk.

93) Hillary and Bill Clinton: Femme fatale meets enfant terrible in a tour-de-force film-noire classic.

94) Political promises are make-believe love – an impostor’s hurlyburly hankypanky imposture imposing false impressions of truly true truth.

95) Do not get involved with remote-controlled people.

96) Purge the urge to splurge.

97) We all know it can’t do it all but it’s all over the place trying to live all of our lives as if only it knows best what’s best for us all. (tnemnrevog)

98) Deep-fried brains cause mind plaque.

99) When love becomes a country face-down in the gutter, think about changing planets.

100) To get to the root of the matter, think beneath the box.

101) The backside of the mirror knows intuitively that everything is moving away from everything.

102) Deeptheenk prevents problems; serendipity helps you remove them.

103) A man who argues with a woman is a man who’s always wrong not because of what he’s arguing about but just because he’s arguing.

104) Jungle savagery, otherwise known as nepotism, cronyism, fascism, tryanny, totalitarianism, authoritarianism, absolutism, satanism, socialism, communism, tribalism and cannibalism, is based on jungle law which is, on pain of death, unconditional obedience to the absolute authority of the jungle savage with the power of life and death over all.

105) The Cybelization of civilization, unconditional obedience to the absolute authority of some law other than the moral law of free will, good will and self-rule, is the apotheosis of apostacy.

106) Art contemplates not only the human condition and the meaning of life but also the inhuman condition and the meaning of death.

107) Administrative agencies perpetrate and perpetuate presumptions of ccorrectness (color of law) when they prosecute in administrative tribunals administrative claims in equity (presumptions of correctness/color of law) which have no form or substance in law.

108) Is authority the truth or is truth the authority?

109) Under a cloak of secrecy a power elite, unelected and unknown to the masses in a democracy, controls the authority of the state.

110) You can let time slip thru your fingers. You can let money slip thru your fingers. You can let love slip thru your fingers. But if you let your fingers slip thru your fingers, you have serious problems (Larry King).

111) Black magic, practiced by black magicians using sleight of hand and sleight of mind, keeps you in the dark where you not only lose your way but, through subterfuge, camouflage, masquerade, and charade duping you into a confidence game you are not even aware of, you lose some precious thing rightfully yours when you meant to gain something precious.

112) Never let temporary pleasure destroy a long-term goal.

113) The nose knows more than the toes knows.

114) If you get a foot in the door, leave your ego on the floor.

115) Every human endeavor has a hierarchy and a lowerarchy.

116) News Flash – Another insane killing rampage by an out-of-control lonely person on antidepressants.

117) THE ALIEN ABDUCTEE COOKBOOK FOR INTERGALACTIC TRAVEL discovered on a time machine voyaging far into Earth’s past was renamed MY NEIGHBOR’S PET TYRANNOSAUR ATE THIS COOKBOOK AND BECAME A VEGETARIAN.

118) Indecipherability is the highest achievement of the lowest-common-denominator poetry.

119) See-thru thong bikinis reveal the secret graveyards of rogue L. F. Ants.

120 Welcome to the Nude Whirled Whoredear.

121) If madmen were to rule the world, madness would reign in a madhouse world.

122) Govern(men)t is rule by a cabal of men above the law and govern(man)t is rule by executive order.

123) To set up hell on earth, rouse the rabble to rise up and turn society into heaps of rubble and ash.

124) If life’s worth living, is death worth dying?

125) Walls around walls around walls reeks of tyranny.

126) War means cities become cemeteries and buildings tombstones.

127) Law spelled backward is wal(l).

128) Bone-thin anorexic cokewhore poems hug the left side of the bulemic white page.

129) The gambler’s mantra is: I don’t care who loses as long as it’s never me and I don’t care who wins as long as it’s always me.

129) Poker players dissembling that they are semi-amateurs working toward their amateur status are the true sneaky professionals.

130) Bad beats in poker are rotten vegetables.

131) When the cards beat you, you are trapped in a losing hand.

132) Attack ‘em, smack ‘em and whack ‘em & slice ‘em, dice ‘em and ice ‘em & go berserk, run amok and wreak havoc are the only way to play poker.

133) Junk-card superstars play marginal hands in bad position and destroy the table.

134) In poker there are four kinds of hands:  bluff,  fluff, stuff, and ’nuff.  In a bluff hand, you have nothing and you bet as if you have the double nuts.  In a fluff hand, you have something and you bet as if you have the nuts and a half.  And in a stuff hand, you actually have the nuts but you slow play your hand as if you have nothing.  When you win with any of these three hands, then you have a ’nuff hand.

135) The only thing worse than a politician drunk with power is a drunk politician with power.

136) One of the best ways to lie to people is to tell the truth so unconvincingly that they don’t believe you.

137) Poker is not a card game played with people; it’s a people game played with cards.

138) Injustice anywhere is a threat to justice everywhere. (Martin Luther King)

139) L-egant Intellig-ants become OBD-ants, belong, believe and behave.

140) While waiting for the messiah to gather up the chosen, exuberant marionettes infatuated with irregular intervals inadvertently get a glimpse of hypothetical love making itself presentable for its destination to oblivion (Onto Something Coming & Going).

141) The roundest knight at King Arthur’s round table was Sir Cumference, he acquired his size from too much Pi.

142) I thought I saw an eye doctor on an Alaskan island, but it turned out to be an optical Aleutian.

143) She was only a whisky maker – but he loved her still.

144) A rubber band pistol was confiscated in an algebra class because it was a weapon of math disruption.

145) No matter how much you push the envelope, it’ll still be stationery.

146) A grenade thrown into a kitchen in France would result in Linoleum Blownapart.

147) Two silk worms had a race. They ended up in a tie.

148) Time flies like an arrow. Fruit flies like a banana.

149) Atheism is a non-prophet organization.

150) Two hats were hanging on a hat rack in the hallway. One hat said to the other, ‘You stay here; I’ll go on a head.’

151) I wondered why the baseball kept getting bigger.. Then it hit me.

152) A sign on the lawn at a drug rehab center said: ‘Keep off the Grass.’

153) A chicken crossing the road is poultry in motion.

154) The short fortune-teller who escaped from prison was a small medium at large.

155) The man who survived mustard gas and pepper spray is now a seasoned veteran.

156) A backward poet writes inverse.

157) In democracy it’s your vote that counts. In feudalism it’s your count that votes.

158) When cannibals ate a missionary, they got a taste of religion.

159) Don’t join dangerous cults: Practice safe sects!

160) Poets act like fringelings parading on life’s periphery.

161) Is that a poem in your pocket or are you just happy to see me?

162) Great poetry is, of course, spectacular oracular vernacular.

163)  Humerica will always be home to experimentally experimental experimenters experimenting experimentally.

164)  Never look a gift-horse in the ass.

165) Sects appeal fronts for religious fanaticism.

166) Almost everyone writes poetry but scarcely anyone can write a poem (Clive James).

167) Snobbery sadistically shows itself to be that quotidian human condition wherein quintessential human nature is spiritually corrupted by a pathologically extravagant strain of  satanically-inspired self-absorption syndrone.

168) Avant-garde intellectuals are heretic-hermits hiding from nomad reality in an ethereal cloud of metaphysical indifference.

169) Your mind of minds knows in your heart of hearts that the powers-that-be-behind-closed-doors are all mad men and mad women living in a madhouse of their own design called the established social order.

170) You can’t get old without feeling old.

171) A destitute prostitute institute constitutes a bankrupt whorehouse.

172) An avant-garde prostitute would more aptly be a whortist or a whorthete.

173)  Wars are man-made hate affairs with not much in common with love affairs except that love affairs sometimes end up as man-made and woman-made hate affairs when love affairs fare ill.

174)  Derivatives are paper feces blasted out of Wall Street’s ass.

175)  You’re so dum you can’t tell farts from turds.

176)  The difference between love and hate is love can happen at first sight but hate will happen at first slight.

177)  Your m(high)nd of m(eye)nds knows in your h(ear)t of he(arts) that the poetry-(pow!)ers-that-be-behind-closed-doors, the ill(litter)airy f(horses) of d(ark)nest, are mad men and mad women living in a madh(ow!)se of their own design called the e(stab)lished poetreek ordure.

178) Shit happens.  Don’t be a toilet.

179) 99.99% of all poetry ever written is a hojpoj garbaj baraj of o mumbo jumbo gumbo.

180) Science and art unzip the fly of God.

181) A writer must have a subversive imagination to be an avant-garde assassin of contemporary literature.

182) Avant-garde artists are unruly slaves in revolt undermining and overthrowing  the artistic status quo.

183) The Infallibility of the Willy-Nilly Liberal Mind Set Concerning the People: You don’t know what’s good for you, and even if you did, it wouldn’t matter, because we’re going to do what we think is good for you, whether you like it or not.

184) Political correctness is a doctrine, fostered by a delusional, illogical minority, and rabidly promoted by an unscrupulous mainstream media, which holds forth the proposition that it is entirely possible to pick up a turd by the clean end.

185) You can trick a donkey but you can’t fool a mule.

186) Men who think with their penises mistakenly think they’re geniuses.

187) Don’t hang around with smart people.  All they do is try to outsmart you.  Hang around with dum people.  They can’t outsmart you.  All they can do is outdum you.

188) Starving poets write oweds.

189) In no-limit hold-’em poker, just because you got it (before the flop, on the flop, or on the turn), doesn’t mean you get it unless you got the absolute stone-cold mortal-lock triple-trouble nuts on the river.

190) Dying beats the shit out of you and rips your guts out.  Then Death turns out your lights.  What a couple of assholes.

191) An army of one is soon an army of none.

192) In America you get your ‘say’  but you get no ‘sayso.’

193)  Civilization looks in the mirror and sees an uneasy truce between governance and populace.

194)  Grab time (carpe diem) with all your heart and all your mind before time is gone without looking back even for a fraction of a moment.

195) Livin’ high off the hog for you, buddy, is livin’ way too high off my hog, pal.

196)  Culture looks into the mirror and sees scantily-clad imaginations frolicking in the sieze of time.

197) And what do you do for a living?  If you really want to know (as Holden would say), I make most of my money on the weekend as a transsexual transvestite prostitute.  You don’t recognizes me, but you’re one of my best customers.  Or I could be an infamous child pornographer or a satanically-inspired serial killer for hire.  If you actually found out what someone did for a living after asking the question,  you just might want to eat it.

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199)  Poetry’s post-mortem:  If poetry is dead, great poems still live on forever.

200)  Death isn’t what it’s all cracked up to be.

201)  What it’s all about is where it’s at and where it’s at is all about babes.

202) Get right or get left. (Janine Zinnerman [shepjanine@yahoo.com])

203) There are two kinds of people in the world: hermits and nomads. If you can’t find the cave, you won’t find the hermit. If the hermit leaves the cave, you won’t find the hermit because when the hermit leaves the cave, the hermit becomes the nomad. If the nomad enters the cave, you won’t find the nomad in the cave because the nomad becomes the hermit when the nomad enters the cave. Now you can find the hermit but only if you find the cave and find the hermit in the cave before the hermit leaves the cave and becomes the nomad. If you are looking for the nomad and you look for the nomad in the cave, you won’t find the nomad in the cave because only the hermit is in the cave. If you’re looking for the nomad, you can only find the nomad outside the cave and only if the hermit leaves the cave and becomes the nomad. In other words, you can’t find the nomad if the hermit stays in the cave. And you won’t find the hermit in the cave if the hermit has left the cave and has become the nomad.

204) If you think you’re the Tyrannosaurus Rex at the poker table, you’re suffering from the Pokersaurus Hex.

205) You get old, you get ugly, you get sick, and then you die.

206) You know what kills the boy in the man?  The woman he lives with!

207) No one in particular taking it all in stride speaks for itself.

208)  Silence, ridding itself of language, swallows itself whole and comes face to face with time’s mirror-image gesticulating at emptiness.

209)  Inanity,  inadequacy, and ineptitude are the “in” things in poetry today.

210)  The end of civilization as we know it is the start of civilization as we don’t know it.

211)   Living a life without passion is pretending to live a life created in God’s image.

212)  The Gods versus God is a mirror-image conflict where one side of the coin opposes the other.

213)  Layer by layer, critics strip off the clothes of a poem until the poem is invisible under the glare of its own nudity.

214)  Courting the Goddess looking for loveliness while fleeing the revolution lasts a lifetime.

215)  You don’t talk to backed-up toilets.  You fix them.

216)  Power over others is exercised by power under others.

217)  The future of poetry belongs to the Poetry Wars between Poetry Collections and Collections of Poems.

218)  The next big thing in poetry?  Poems!

219)  What an old man sees sittting down, a young man can’t see standing up. (IBO Proverb)

220)  A woman is the most dangerous animal known to man.

221)  When the woman becomes the man in the family, she’s married to herself.

222)  When the man becomes the woman in the family, he becomes the girl she used to be.

223)  DDG means Done Did Good.

224)  A professional single person is a PSP.

225)  Thinking about d(eat)h is like watching acid rain walking toward you to dissolve you.

226)  If all the years of your life have been a necklace of tears, death will be a crown of laughter.

227)  If you challenge the status quo and keep challenging the status quo, eventually the status quo will challenge you back.

228)  A chance acquaintance you meet by chance, and if you meet that chance acquaintance by chance again, that chance acquaintance becomes a nodding acquaintance.

229)  Illusions camouflage the labyrinth invisible to the unveiled eye.

230)  I don’t know what planet I’m from, but when the rest of us get here, you’re all in big trouble.

231)  Sex is xeS spelled backwards.

232)  What you see is what you saw.

233)  Killing each of us, God rehearses a death not to be.

234)  Poetry is the craft of writing that creates the work of art called poem.

235)  A poem is the work of art created by the craft of writing called poetry.

236)  If you can’t take it with you, don’t leave.

237)  Beware the poker player who raises and then says, “I didn’t come here to win small pots; I came here to lose big ones.”

238) If greed is good and more greed is gooder, most greed is goodest.

239) Raising in poker is making the wrinkled-grape-move.

240) A poem worth savoring (and saving) catches your eye, holds your attention, and says something profound.

241) Heart crumbles into its jilted footprint at the speed of freefall love.

241) Idolatry (Satanism) is unconditional obedience on pain of death to absolute authority with the power of life and death over all.

242) If a woman’s place is in the home and a man’s place is in the woman when he’s not in the other woman, most women would rather be some place else.

243) Bubble people wear their cars outside their cars and if you get too close they roll their windows up and drive away.

244) Poems are petrified words on fossilized pages scattered in the ruins of an ancient library in 4,444,444 A.D. where the authorities have outlawed poetry as the revolutionary tool of artistic imaginations trying to overthrow involuntaryism.

245) If the modern man’s insecure in bed, tie his arms and legs with the sheets instead of letting him roam all over the mattress looking for the perfect twenty-year-old mistress.

246) What the fuck does ‘what the fuck’ mean and who the fuck thought ‘what the fuck’ up and who the fuck thought ‘who the fuck’ up and what the fuck does ‘who the fuck’ mean?

247) A bitch is a two-legged fist.

248) Twat’s that? Bare ass me again. I cunt finger it out.

249) Yes, you see, the thing is, actually, you know, it seems to be, all right then, that you need to believe in something, well, yeah, but, and because, ah, where was I, oh yes, now, to continue….

250) People don’t eat because they’re hungry. People eat so they don’t get hungry.

251) Become a member, become a number.

252) The end of knowledge is wisdom and the end of wisdom is freedom and the end of freedom is prosperity, and the end of prosperity is happiness.

253) Tyrants turn a blind eye to the law and a deaf ear to the people.

254) Mooch welfare bureau. Your problem is my problem. How can I help?

255) Messiah Ministries. Seemore Seeless speaking. Do you need savioring?

256) The Talking Dead, a f(whore)ce to be unreckoned with, suffer from congestive art failure, comotose con-shush-noise, and rigormortis m(eye)nd.

257) Guise and Ruse play both ends against the middle.

258) Bore-nographer poets write bore-nography poetry.

259) There are two kinds of people in the world – people who divide people into kinds and people who don’t.

260) Good to great poems must be published over and over and over again or otherwise they disappear into oblivion as if they had never been written at all.