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Locks Are For the Honest

As Is love is like the federal budget it's a foot thick and there is no line-item veto. It's the whole package or nothing. There is no mix and match in love not a chinese menu two from column A one from column B it's the blue plate special what you get is what you see no a la cart before the horse ...

Yes, I always dreamed of Dali
asking me for my autograph
a scribble of my DNA
one-way intimacy we have
with god and celebrity

praise be to BOB

slack is the flower and fruit of Apathy

WHO CARES? RALLY to Restore Apathy in America full formatted version here E verybody seems to be having a rally these days. Beck had his and Rev. Al had one down the street and now my colleagues John Stewart and Stephen Colbert are having theirs. I'd better get with the program. Therefore I today a...

In Defense of Bad Teachers The Poet’s Eye loves to see the national chorus being raised by the Waiting for Superman movie and the unified media push on the subject of education reform. One thing that troubles me is that we seem to be, in the process of creating a sense of urgency, risking a witch-h...

W hat I need is a good scandal, you know, one big enough to really put me on the map. Bombings and assassinations are too extreme for my nature, I'm not a priest so I don't have any alter boys to fool around with. I'm not smart enough to embezzle billions. I've written some scandalously bad poetry ...

neo,
you sound like you have a positive grip on satire
we welcome you to the Absurdist Party
it's good that there is Studio Eight where we can make fun of anything we want (except Doreen of course.)

More Comedy In Congress Stephan Colbert’s testimony before the Congressional Committee on Immigration was a welcome relief from the recent pomposity and bad circumstances exhibited in that building. It’s heartening to see that our democracy is secure enough to allow its fools to frolic and our legi...

There is no greater joy than making the rules in your own house. My house always welcomes a joke because laughter is my cardinal element. but I've always liked the quote from Jubal Harshaw: "This is freedom hall. Do whatever you want. Until you do something I don't like and then I'll kick you the he...

Very Very Very Fine House In my house, the level of levity is high don't come here if you can't take a joke the incense you smell is sarcasm or cigarettes this is the smoking section, the breathing section is outside I allow you to come, but I'll tell you to leave if you can't take a joke in my hou...

The Autumn of My Unemployment the leaf had a part-time job seasonal work, no benefits the leaf was a model of green energy enabler to the tree, sugar from the sun the leaf graduated with a degree PhD, doctor of photosynthesis top of his tree before the earth tipped on its axis In September the leaf...

good story, doreen

any sax man will tell you to keep your reed wet

beautiful, my friend

The whole subject of charity has long beguiled me. It requires grace in order to work as surely as a wheel needs an axle. Both recipient and benefactor must have their specific types of grace. Charity should go unnoticed not because it is a shame but because it is ubiquitous as the air and as holy. ...