It takes guts to admit you don’t belong but it’s easy to read a sign that says No admission

The original version’s working title was The Giveth and Taketh Away Tree but Silverstein couldn’t get it published

At first moving heaven and earth is its own reward because it’s hell on wheels But self-flagellation

If you try to control others The ones you will judge the harshe… Are those who are the hardest to c… Who are the ones who tell the trut… Because the truth is always one th…

I was voluntold to make myself sca… But scarcely do they realize In pretending to give me a choice They have unwittingly given me an… Truth or dare?

A man must never admit that what he wants more than anything is to be told what to do Instead

The modernist thesis– You’ll know it when you see it The post—modernist antithesis— I can’t believe my own eyes Our current and nameless synthesis…

Liberalism deepened by religion Religion widened by liberalism Until the body and soul politic Is so deep That it swallows our fears

What is the darkness of evil? It is closing your eyes out of fea… But believing yourself blind When all you need do Is open your eyes

There is the rule of law Which is self-explanatory Or there is the law of rule Which will always be explained to…

Goodbye is not always goodbye In fact, it never is For while I may never see you aga… I’ll never unsee you

Archaeologists have looked and loo… But what if the Earth itself is o… And our universe the flood of dark… As we inhabit story within story w… In an infinite fractal

Frequently, God’s light is like sun glare, telling me to slow the heck down

Strange that we use Out of order for broken and for breaking the rules As if the Coke machine

The pursuit of fame is the human equivalent of a dog chasing its own tail