Higher education purports to prepare you for life when really it exists to indebt you for life, expanding campus ideology

Updating Yeats’s “The best lack all conviction While the worst are full of passio… I’d say The best lack all conviction

As we grasp for total control And everything spins out of contro… God reminds us of all that is beyo… Which is everything But for what we believe

Having finally found my place I am ready for anything And everything Don’t worry– There’s a place for anyone

Finding the anxiety of not knowing who we are for the Other unbearable we cracked the cheat code of statu… but in predetermining

China’s zero-covid policy zeroes in on ideology in order to zero out reality Americans, too, have a zero percen… making justice a total zero

In the new version of Heads I win, tails you lose People hate to be wrong But love to apologize And if you accept their apology

Inevitably my spirit vegetable was rutabaga

I can only ever seem to do the math in the aftermath

What would my life be like If I stopped worrying And trusted God completely? Instead of preparing for the worst And hoping for the best

The poems Write themselves But they don’t Type themselves

In a Hegelian reversal, I couldn’t com– plain but it would help

For the longest time we were convinced there’s something they’re not tell… But now that they’ve finally told… we can’t stop asking

But surely, you’ve noticed by now That all progress is incremental Across increments of time Because all progress is time-bound And the unfolding of time