Unsatisfied with natural consequen… human beings concocted perverse in… which is to say where once we were mere mortals now we are self-defeating
We’ve got enough to go on That there’s enough for everybody So long as we are tough enough But we couldn’t leave well enough… And soon enough
It’s as thoughtless as a fling conjoined with worshiping as we all “Move fast and break thi… For in going from built to last arriving at built too fast
If you can convince people that something is inevitable they will behave as if it’s already happened making its eventuality a non-event
Even when religion is about the symbolic it must guard against fundamentalism But when religion
Narrow minds see The narrow odds of making their es… Cleaving to the straight and narro… They’ve cleaved the path in two And because they can still see no…
Don’t think of a pink elephant and while you’re at it Don’t kill the messenger
I was caught between a rock and a hard place unable to decide on a way out Instead, you decided on me
People think artists are painting, dancing, writing, or… when really they’re all whistling past the graveyard
I hope to live several decades more making it odd to know so very well what they’ll put
Life = Trial by fire Death = Trial by firing squad
I believe in a future in which man perfects the art of expressing his discontent in bushes that look like clouds
Poets are to their poems As parents are to their children Preparing them for the world Without knowing what they will do
I can demand control Of my fear Or I can accept That I am not in control And be not afraid
Johnny Cash is going to Jackson; I have been to Jacksonville
