Category Archives: Wisdom



Emancipation

An intellectual, perhaps Voltaire,
Perhaps Diderot, many years ago
Reflected on our freedom and welfare
And determined what everyone should know:
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Posted in Greed, Politics, Poverty, Religion, Wisdom

An Immodest Proposal For Ending War

Twenty-four hundred years ago a Greek
Playwright named Aristophanes produced
A comedy in which one smart woman
Ended the Peloponnesian Wars.
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Posted in Lust, Politics, War, Wisdom

Insomnia

Each day I limp down to the courts
At nine o’clock and after noon,
Sit on a bench with aged cohorts
To tease and joke, kill time, commune.
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Posted in Aging, Death, Illusion, Pain, Wisdom

My Volume Of Verse

I’ve hammered out
Three hundred ninety poems,
Some bent and skewed,
Some polished
And quite bright.
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Posted in Greed, Illusion, Poetry (What is it?), Politics, Religion, War, Wisdom

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

At The Paddle Tennis Courts: Patriotism

Each day, down at the courts,
We elders shmooze.
A harmless bunch,
We argue sports,
And politics,
Watch the girls go by,
And reminisce.
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Posted in Conformity, Politics, War, Wisdom