Wise Thought Number Forty-Five

 You can make fun of me

for reading comic books

All you like--

Cuz at least my superheroes

Have a significant moral depth,

unlike your idols.

3-23-12 

Wise Thought Number Forty-Four

 Not all of us are rich enough--

To afford happiness

But all of us are poor enough

To afford love.

3-22-12 

Wise Thought Number Forty-Three

 Tonight

Before you go to sleep

Look up at your ceiling

And thank whoever you see there

For your traumatic childhoods.

You wouldn't be “normal”

Without them.

3-21-12 

Wise Thought Number Forty-Two

 You'll go farther with honey

instead of vinegar.

Honestly--

Do you think the guys

behind Twitter

Would be nearly as successful

If they called their users

Twits?

3-20-12 

Wise Thought Number Forty-One

 There is an exception to every rule.

Like following one's conscious--

Follow it

Do what that little voice tells you

Listen

Unless--

Your conscious happens to be an

Amoral Bastard.

3-19-12 

Wise Thought Number Forty

 When someone is mean to you

Don't be mean back--

Wait for them to get up

And spit on their seat

When they're not looking.

3-16-12 

Wise Though Number Thirty-Nine

 I'm not sure what to do

when I go to the beach.

I mean, how long do you

Expect me

To stare at the ocean?

I'm pretty sure

I've documented

All the ways it can kill me

Within the first ten minutes.

3-15-12 

Wise Thought Number Thirty-Eight

 Let's be honest

It's human nature--

I'm jealous of you

Like the crocodile

Is jealous of the shark.

3-14-12 

Wise Thought Number Thirty-Seven

 People will tell you

Otherwise--

But outside of a zombie

Apocalypse--

'Bite me' is always an

Appropriate

Response.

3-13-12

Wise Thought Number Thirty-Six

Sometimes I wake up at night—

Frightened at the butterflies

Floating in my stomach,

Worried that they might be suffocating

In there, with no air to fly on.

3-12-12 

because I don't feel cavalier today

I'd rather be the dust left from leaping flames

Than endure such a brief existence,

To burn so very true, and only leave a brightness

To linger behind the eyes.

Dust does not burn, it does not leap,

And yet it stays, reduced to essence,

Spread thin and bitter in the space left by greater things.

I'd rather be the dust, the ashes of a passion,

And be blown afar by a stronger wind--

For though ash has no beauty and no heat,

It has the memory still, of something that was.  

3-9-12

Wise Thought Number Thirty-Four

College--
If you have time to
Eat and Sleep regularly,
You're doing it wrong.

3-8-12

Wise Thought Number Thirty-Three

I would really, really

Hate

To be a giraffe in a zoo.

To be tall enough to see

The Sky,

Yet still have feet planted

So firmly on the

Ground.

3-7-12 

Wise Thought Number Thirty-Two

I can hear the

Pitter-patter

of the penguins

Pacing on

The ice.

Camels jabber

At each other,

Ranting the

The unfairness

Of the Desert.

Like monkeys

On a zip-line,

We all die

Sometime.

Let us then

Tango

Unto

Enlightenment.

3-6-12  Inspired by prompts from Lizzy P.

Wise Thought Number Thirty-One

Baby Jesus is called

“tender and mild”

But anyone with

Two brain cells to rub

Together knows,

If babies were Tender,

They'd die the first time

You dropped them,

And they can hardly

Be called Mild in

Temperament.

3-5-12 

Wise Thought Number Thirty

If “google” has become

A verb, representing the

Use of any search engine--

Will the accepted term for

A minority succeeding

In politics be known as

“Obama-ing?”

3-2-12

Written based on prompts from Katie Waldroop.

Wise Thought Number Twenty-Nine

There are some people

You look at them,

And you just know.

If they were given

A sword to hold--

They would stab

themselves

In the foot with it.

3-1-12