Category Archives: Wisdom



Ecce Psyche!

The DSM and ISC whimper
Mere flickers of the vibrant, colorful
Hippocratic air, earth, fire, and water
That define the misery, the trouble Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Wisdom

The DSM

In the beginning (so the story goes)
There was this garden,
Subtropical,
Full of fruit, with meat enough Continue reading →

Posted in Bullshit, Religion, Wisdom

Serious Comics

For scores of years Dagwood Bumstead’s wide-eyed
Character comic’ly graced the funnies
But on nine/twenty-two/two thousand nine
Elmo, the kid next door, stunned centuries Continue reading →

Posted in Wisdom

What’s It All About?

You reach a certain age, settle, look back—
Find your head moving, lightly, side to side—
Soundless words contemplate the trashy wrack—
Your wrecked life’s debris, polluting time’s tide. Continue reading →

Posted in Today's News, Wisdom

Academic Major: Life; Philosophy Minor

Life too short? Nah—too long, too hard, bereft,
Meaningless. Climbed a pinnacle? Look down!
Fell into a dark abyss? Peer up. Deft?
Fond of slick theory? See our clownish Continue reading →

Posted in Wisdom

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