Sunday Squibs

 

Try to please all

Your esteem will be battered

Please those who you like

Esteem level won’t matter

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God is good when you he pleases 

Not good when on you he sneezes 

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Must we say sorry? Be polite to the letter?

Yes. If remorse is for real, not just to feel better. 

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The standup comic can go high or go low; go left or go right, but the elephant in the middle of the room will always be a fart. 

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Thanks to machines, modern people are unlikely to grow up in slavery, though we’ve all become slaves to our machinery. 

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We have paintings of Washington, photographs of Lincoln, and the radio talks of Roosevelt. Since then it’s been TMI all the time. 

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Can you name a rogue state, or pariah nation?

Some would call out South Caroline, others, Californification. 

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The list of places I’ve dreamed of but have never gone grows as long as my shelf of unread guidebooks. 

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Youth who squander their wages

And get into hock

Will say of their Golden Years

“This is a crock!”

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Life, part one is to realize the script is absurd

Part two: write your own lines, word after word

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Happy St. Joseph's Day