Because desire is lack like everyone else I take what I can’t get until I learn to give what I can
My life used to be An open book Now it’s an open state secret
You have to believe to commit And they think we’re crazy to beli… And would commit us as inpatients If only they had the patience But their patience has worn thin
If you need to appear weak to access power you’ll end up weak-kneed and abuse your power
Because I was both my private and public self I was neither and my trail went cold from there But now that there are neither
I was a bullshit artist until I realized a career as a bullshit scientist paid better
My wife now relates to me very much as she does to stinky cheese
Just because they’re coming to get you doesn’t mean you’re not paranoid
Because the ego mustn’t know its real mission lest it go back on accepting it, this message will self-destruct five seconds before life begins:
The cold war was a just war but a just war is still just war and war is hell
We treat life as if Postponing the inevitable When we should be busy Preparing for the inestimable
The never-ending apocalyptic refra… may just be yet another version of death’s denial: The world must be ending
I have not loved my neighbor as my… but I have consistently greeted hi… with an insouciant bonhomie
I can’t get no satisfaction except self-satisfaction and I pity the fool who would want that
The stapler inevitably jams And it’s always the stapler That jams the copier Except for the times it jams When you try to copy something you…