Aphorisms

Violence is the knowledge of violence

Love is not the little things but the frequent ones.

Illusions succeed to the degree the subject wishes to be fooled.

Clitoral Stimulation: a great way to win friends and influence people.

The human mind is an excellent computer that is not obliged to run any program.

Power implies the misuse of power.

Demoralizing the enemy is easier than actually killing them, and, as the experts claim wiping an opponent out may not in fact be possible....

The hardest thing in any relationship is dealing with the apparent delusions of the other person. Of course, the other person has the same problem too.

Past behavior is the greatest predictor of future behavior.

All that proceeds from truth is justice. All that is justice proceeds from truth. Therefore the caliber of memory is the caliber of morality

Marriage is an agreement to stay with someone after you've fallen out of love with them in hopes of falling in love with them again.

When you can't win a war, fight revolution.

Sin Tax: an expense upon the willing

When foreign policy disregards actual power relationships, it builds on quicksand.

What leaders decide, spies seek to justify.

Caffeine: the only drug that actually tastes good.

A law is always more of a burden to those who follow it than to those who disregard it

Confabulation is a universal action. Some just do it routinely enough to get a diagnosis.

Cheryl-lee

Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-lee,
Set to sail and sailed the sea,
Sought she, sought she,
Deep sleep on surserant sea,

Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-lee,
Stayed from shore, sailed sea to sea,
Silent in silence, alone and alee,
So sailed and sailed,
Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-lee,

Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-Lee,
Sought and sought a roiling sea,
A sea seeking and seeking only just she,

She, oh she
Set to stay in distant sea,
Slept she, Slept she,
Deep asleep, asea,

So sailed and sailed,
So stayed and stayed,
So sat, astill
Cheryl-lee, Cheryl-lee,

Another Angry Protest Poem

• I

The dead of Chernobyl,
Died
For nuclear power...
Free tumors for everyone!

Geronimo,
And old Yellow-Hair,
Ask you to die
For the land....
Quite similar men, those two,

And the dead of Stalingrad
Ask you to die
For Communism ....
and for the Reich...
Working that out, though,
May not be fun

The Confederate dead want....
Well, nothing good
But being dead
Still expect it

The dead of Ireland...
Want more dead in Ireland....
So support the I.R.A!

The suicides of Iraq
Simply forgot
"No son of a bitch
Ever won a war
By dying for his country...."
Are we any smarter?

• II

Still--
None of the dead,
Mind the squan-der,
Both here,
And in far yonder
Of casualty, the currency of war!

Nor do they pay any mind
At any place or at any time
To the casualty that comes the first...

The twenty-First Century Blues

Cyber votes from George's Jeb,
But no damn jobs
On a world-wide web

I c'n Google all across the Earth,
But can't find gas
For just its worth,

And all along the cyber-way,
Each site tells my kids "just play,"
And each and every cyber-whore,
Offers 'em a little more....

Oh--
I got the twenty-first century blues.

Science Haiku

The pithiest view,
The binary essence it,
Science or Haiku?