The arts say What can’t be said While agitprop tells us What can be said In a game of

A record sounds the same every time you play it A broken record is intolerable because it isn’t broken, it’s just…

In fragile civilizations Power is used to acquire status And status is just for decoration In resilient civilizations Self-sacrifice is recognized as th…

Coffee is for the middle-aged; we need both to shit and get shit done

Only a poet Can accurately describe anything More accurately A poet can describe anything Except himself

I’m still the kind of person who is shocked that you can run out of gas and run out of luck at the exact same time

Keep your friends close your enemies closer and your neighbor closest

It would have been enough Had God merely kept His promises But since He knows a thing or two About human psychology God always under-promises and over…

I was born in the summer of my 47th year coming home to a place my mazel’d ever been before

The reason God made us mortal Is the reason hiding in plain sigh… So that Knowing we must die anyway We might choose

In all my dreams of flying my life has come

Actually, we all died in the pande… Life– I can’t afford not to Pandemic life– I can’t afford to… The afterlife– I can’t afford not…

They can’t kick sand in your face if your head is al– ready in the sand

Don’t talk to strangers; Sing with them

The wait is heavy So, I choose to carry a heavy wei… And where the wait is exhausting The weight is strengthening As long as I rest between lifts o…