Category Archives: Vanity



Iraq Limericks

Exceptionalism’s fierce bane
Is self-esteem’s need to ordain
What’s best for all others,
Instead of their druthers,
And ends by inflicting fierce pain.
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Posted in Politics, Today's News, Vanity, War

Form, Dammit, Form!

I often chide the poets of our time
For being narcissistic to a fault
For being formless and eschewing rhyme
Abandoning the strictures we exalt.
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Posted in Inspiration, Poetry (What is it?), Vanity

Need Vs. Want

In order to remain alive we need
Some living space, nourishment, water, air.
But mere necessities are trumped by greed—
Not needs, our wants become destructive snares.
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Posted in Affluence, Greed, Vanity, Wisdom

Kaparot

Next to advertising, religion
Offends the most—in some respects they match.
Both perceive the rest of us as pigeons,
Bird-brains that their glib gibberish can catch.
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Posted in Conformity, Vanity

Fashun

We figured it out—clothes were important,
Whether fig leaves, togas or furry pelts,
To keep from freezing blue, thumped by the brunt
Of winter ice or summer’s red-burn welts.
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Posted in Conformity, Vanity

Natural Selection

They taught us atoms were the smallest things
Back in the thirties—clearly they were wrong.
They taught us evolution pulled the strings—
Natural selection frames what belongs.
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Posted in Vanity, Wisdom