Category Archives: Conformity



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

Ambition

What dark afflictions drive us—gifted, cursed
With what no other animals possess?
I used to think religion was the worst
Disease dementing us—pustular abscess!
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Posted in Conformity, Greed, Religion, Vanity, Wisdom

Zero-sum

Pierce through our hist’ry books, our modern scene—
Discover truth: life’s a zero-sum game.
Frenzied flagellate spears ovum—the dream
Begins: gestation, birth, fierce drive for fame! Continue reading →

Posted in Conformity, Death

Working Title: Scream!

The tagger and the terrorist are clones,
Spawn of the self-same primal need: Fear me!
See me! Listen! I will never lie prone
Beneath your abasing heel! Your cheery Continue reading →

Posted in Conformity, War

Senator Larry E. Craig (R-Idaho)

Jeez Larry, what were you thinking? Horny
Is one thing, but in an airport crapper?
You’re sixty-two, for god’s sake—how lovelorn
Could you be? In Minnesota? Sappy, Continue reading →

Posted in Conformity, Illusion

YOU???—Who Me?

Our past, our present, no doubt our future
History, is fire-forged, fiercely honed,
Shaped by the deadly amalgam of two
Knife-like realities: Testosterone Continue reading →

Posted in Conformity, Lust, Religion