Category Archives: Vanity



The Real Masters of the Universe

Doctors! Can’t live with ‘em, and, certainly,
Can’t live without ‘em. Perhaps (carefully)
We might tame them, rein in that vanity
Nourished by their desp’rate patients’ holy Continue reading →

Posted in Aging, Vanity

Natural Selection

Take the cosmic view: insect colonies
Are more humane than proud humanity.
Social hymenoptera—those wasps, bees,
Ants—get along more peacefully than we. Continue reading →

Posted in Vanity

Faculty Xmas Party

Join us! Why not? Frail lost friends might appear—
Emeriti are (though often hoary)
Not yet quite dead. And this chipped, gray, bleary
Flesh can rise up still, still yearn for glory!
Continue reading →

Posted in Poetry (What is it?), Vanity

Electric Can Openers

Half a hundred years ago, I, half-assed,
Raw pedagogue, would sometimes muse on sin,
On moral themes before a drowsy class.
“Adultery, kept underneath the skin,” Continue reading →

Posted in Gadgets, Vanity, Wisdom

Confession

A friend of mine who reads my poems
Thinks I should publish them in tomes.

She, to that end, presented me
A five pound book called Poetry Continue reading →

Posted in Vanity

Industrial Culture

I joined a poet’s workshop—learned a lot
In just six weeks. Had no idea poets
Are a major industry! Mad zealots
Pay to publish thin chapbooks; besotted Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Poetry (What is it?), Vanity