No man should have to clean-up
after others' dogs, but if
you haven't got a prenup,
attorney fees will make you sniff.
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Some claim that Moses’ Cushite wife
was queen of distant Cush whom he
had married, crisis in midlife,
the sort that we so often see
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If your girl friend’s getting old,
and not frigid though you’re cold,
and she says you’ve got to mate her,
get her an eroscillator.
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If you’re on call all moments of the year
to visit places where you’ve never been
make sure before you choose to disappear
that you are wearing underwear that's clean
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Thus spake Satan of the survivor:
How can I overcome him?
He has strength and ability,
and weapons and firmness of purpose?
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If you, deluded, think your wit a sign
of great intelligence, consider parrots
whose brains, the size of walnuts, psittacine,
are good as gold that's more than eighteen carats.
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It’s comic how Nike, Adidas both need us,
and with their advertisements publicly greet us;
if one shoe should dropp will the other one fit us?
We’ll find out when players all dance like St. Vitus––
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Craft, faith and narrative all fuse,
creating medieval art;
if you add the inspiration of the muse
you get the Bible. À la carte,
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If love’s not love until it’s lost,
when it can be transformed to art,
enjoying it entails a cost
which should cause artists to lose heart,
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Knowing much must give way sooner
or later to the knowing of
much less, then nothing, like the lunar
cycle, full moon first, then half,
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