Category Archives: Bullshit



The Holy Truth

I found a flyer stuck on my front door.
“Truth, where can you find it? Hear the answer
At a free public event!” Can’t ignore
Invitations that promise such a prance!
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Posted in Bullshit, Religion, Wisdom

Democracy’s Downside

Politics is weird.
One congressman declared
Evolution is satanic
And the earth is 9000 years old.
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Posted in Bullshit, Politics, Religion

The DSM—Fifth Edition

The Diagnostic and Statistical
Manual of Mental Disorder lists
Over three hundred (often mystical)
Depictions of warped behavior—brain twists.
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Posted in Bullshit, Conformity, Religion, Wisdom

Lying

Fear, after all, is multi-faceted—
Prismed glass pretending to be diamond—
Generating lies primed to cleanse the past,
Protect the present, serve as future’s pawn.
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Posted in Bullshit, Illusion, Vanity

Resolutions

It’s easy to make firm resolutions,
But goddamn hard to keep them—so cool it!
Lose thirty pounds? Join gyms? Glib solutions,
Empty words targeting our most ghoulish
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Posted in Bullshit, Conformity, Illusion, Vanity, Wisdom

Insanity: Social Security, The Sonnet

Is madness, insanity, genetic?
Often that’s true. Bent, shriveled chromosomes
And unsparked synapses prove prophetic,
Produce certain intellectual gnomes. Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit