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| If one accepts haiku as a 17 syllable poetry form, then why not a single sentence as a poem? | ||||||
| Impact | 5 March 2023 | |||||
| You know your making a difference when people stop being nice. | ||||||
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| Moving on from unmet expectations: | 10 November 2022 | |||||
| I fired my paintball at that windmill and now I'm going back to sleep. | ||||||
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| The Gift of Stenosis | 22 August 2022 | |||||
| You can get an endorphin rush just by sitting down! | ||||||
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| The Elephant in the Room | 6 April 2021 | |||||
| With practice, it's easy to overlook what's right in front of you. | ||||||
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| Still Not King | 6 April 2021 | |||||
| In the land of the blind, the one eyed man is burned as a heretic. | ||||||
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| Useless Advice for Under-Achievers | 23 September 2020 | |||||
| Try to do nothing... and fail. | ||||||
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| Steer clear this time. | 22 August 2019 | |||||
| I can't poison my life because of action someone else keeps taking. | ||||||
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| New Management Theory | 21 August 2019 | |||||
| Planning a wedding is good therapy for the high strung micromanagers of the world. | ||||||
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| Discretionary Poetry | 21 August 2019 | |||||
| Seeing into men's souls is easy. Living with what you see is hard. |
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| Looking at the world through wine bottle lenses: | 23 August 2018 | |||||
| I'm searching for the truth of life but haven't yet reached the bottom of the bottle. | ||||||
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| Inconvenient Truth | 22 August 2018 | |||||
| Life is never what you expect. If it is, then you're doing it wrong. | ||||||
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| Fully Charged | 22 August 2018 | |||||
| It's amazing what you feel capable of after 12 hours of sleep! | ||||||
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| The Measure of a Man | 20 January 2016 | |||||
| He was a man capable only of second rate work, whose key to success was his skill in convincing others they deserved no better from him. | ||||||
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| Re-Upholstering My Mind in Paisley | 25 August 2015 | |||||
| What do you do when you find yourself listening to the story of a man's first viewing of Apoclypse Now when he was on acid and at the age of fourteen? | ||||||
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| Another victim of reality | 17 February 2015 | |||||
| Hey Universe! How dare you tell me I can't do that! | ||||||
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| Misplaced Attention | 17 February 2015 | |||||
| Sometimes I don't hear what you said until after you are gone. | ||||||
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| I like the one-liners -- they're short. | 5 July 2014 | |||||
| Do not mistake your impatience for a poem that is too long. | ||||||
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| Nerd Consciousness | 6 January 2014 | |||||
| Life feels more like a problem to be solved than an adventure to be enjoyed. | ||||||
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| Pleaser Consciousness | 6 January 2014 | |||||
| I feel too full of the unmet expectations of others and myself rather than a happy anticipation of what might come my way. | ||||||
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| Choosing Your Own Adventure | 17 November 2013 | |||||
| Learn to see the truth in a motivating, not de-motivating way. | ||||||
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| Necessity Is The Mother of Comprehension | 6 August 2013 | |||||
| Art should not have to be explained; Yet an explanation is often necessary. | ||||||
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| Ecology Viewed From Afar | 30 July 2013 | |||||
| Ecology operates in cycles: Precious life is destroyed and thereby becomes the fertile soil for the next generation. | ||||||
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| I Like Working With People | 5 August 2011 | |||||
| I'm shifting my career from the unpleasant struggle to make a product successful to the challenging and rewarding process of helping another person realize a vision. | ||||||
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| Marketing to an Engineer | 26 July 2011 | |||||
| The essence of marketing is to get a large number of people to believe the same thing whether it is true or not. | ||||||
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| Recapturing Fun II -- Computers | 21 July 2011 | |||||
| Computers quit being fun when "fixing broken stuff" became an unpleasant, too frequent necessity instead of an interesting challange. | ||||||
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| Recapturing Fun I -- Writing | 21 July 2011 | |||||
| Writing stopped being fun when it became an urgent activity filled with the fear of judgments by prospective employers. | ||||||
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| A Flash of Lust | 5 July 2011 | |||||
| That man walking down the street: I wonder if he has any idea how cute he is. | ||||||
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| Prioritization Paradox | 2 June 2011 | |||||
| Why am I at my most productive during those times when I try my hardest to avoid doing anything? | ||||||
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| Falling Towards Self Knowledge | 23 September 2010 | |||||
| We find our aspirations by tripping over them. | ||||||
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| Epistemological Enigma | 1 February 2010 | |||||
| Is that peculiar clarity of mind found during drunkenness or depression all that it seems? | ||||||
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| The REAL source of success: | 27 October 2009 | |||||
| Your product must be suffficiently similar to existing broken solutions that stupid people will feel comfortable with it. | ||||||
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| Hope and Affirmation | 26 August 2009 | |||||
| We resolve to make tomorrow better that the today we have been forced to leave behind. | ||||||
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| A Crucial Matter of Identity | c. 2006 | |||||
| I'm not a mad scientist, I'm an angry engineer! | ||||||
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| Rave Restaurant Review | 17 November 2006 | |||||
| This is how food should taste but rarely does! | ||||||
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| He's Not From Around Here | 26 August 2006 | |||||
| Every morning, I make the long journey from my universe to everyone else's, but I don't always complete the trip. | ||||||
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| Rational Fears | 26 August 2006 | |||||
| My long standing fear of being beat up changed in stark and subtle ways when I dated a man who bore the knife scars, and psychological scars from his abusive ex. | ||||||
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| New Depths of Self Acceptance | 4 April 2005 | |||||
| It no longer bothers me that I can see into men's souls. | ||||||
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| Is it soup yet? | 14 December 2004 | |||||
| I think, I need to let myself obsess about that poem for just a little while longer. | ||||||
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| The Bells! The Bells! | 12 December 2004 | |||||
| Tinnitus just goes to prove: Even silence has a sound. | ||||||
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| My Clique | 12 December 2004 | |||||
| This group is an aviary of rare birds! | ||||||
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| A Man To Avoid | 12 December 2004 | |||||
| His mind was a petting zoo for psychoses. | ||||||
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| Divestiture | 12 December 2004 | |||||
| Sometimes it's the hardest thing in the world to absolve one's self and disown duties legitimately belonging to someone else. | ||||||
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| The Alpha and Omega of Stubbornness | 26 September 2004 | |||||
| Never underestimate the seductive power of homeostasis. | ||||||
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| Realization | 26 August 2004 | |||||
| But then I realized that the only reason why I wanted him was because someone else had him. | ||||||
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| Evolution | 20 July 2004 | |||||
| Like my father before me, I will remain five years old until the day I die. | ||||||
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| New Boss | 30 January 2004 | |||||
| "Do this instead," is much more effective direction for an action oriented person than, "Don't do that." | ||||||
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| Insight | 9 October 2003 | |||||
| Have I plumbed the full depths of his soul, or merely been ensnared in his defenses? | ||||||
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| Always Carry a Pen | c. 1990 | |||||
| God forbid I should meet the man of my dreams, and not have a pen to write down his phone number down with. | ||||||
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| Lacking Mystique | 8 October 2003 | |||||
| I'm sick to death of being self-effacing, and single. | ||||||
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| Revenge II | 7 October 2003 | |||||
| You think I did you a favor. | ||||||
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| Revenge | 9 September 2003 | |||||
| Money is no object when given the opportunity to hurt the one you hate. | ||||||
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| Blur | 19 August 2003 | |||||
| A cocktail party, a camera, ADD, and me: GNI. | ||||||
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| Art For Health's Sake | 23 March 2003 | |||||
| At last I've recovered enough emotional reserves for poems again to flow. | ||||||
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| And Now a Word From Our Sponsor | 5 February 2003 | |||||
| The vast majority of these poems are brought to you by the letter "tea". | ||||||
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| Confession | 14 January 2003 | |||||
| It's not so much, "I never stopped loving you" as, "I never stopped wanting you." | ||||||
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| The Rules | 14 January 2003 | |||||
| The rule, "Never have sex with anyone crazier than you," condemns me to a life of celibacy. | ||||||
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| Reality Check | 28 August 2002 | |||||
| "Ah... That is a bit of an epistemological cul-de-sac, isn't it?" | ||||||
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| Community | 26 August 2002 | |||||
| It is a relief to discover, at long last, that there are people exactly as perverse as I am. | ||||||
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| Wannabe | 24 August 2002 | |||||
| This year, the Radical Faeries came to me! | ||||||
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| Microcosmic Regret | 23 August 2002 | |||||
| No matter what comes before or after, a thing, once said, cannot be unsaid. | ||||||
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| Homemade Pornography | 21 August 2002 | |||||
| Digital photography gives new meaning to the term, "instant gratification". | ||||||
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| Desire | 21 August 2002 | |||||
| I have a sweat shop filled with psychics in Fort Lee New Jersey trying to determine what it is that he wants. | ||||||
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| Textile Comfort | 20 August 2002 | |||||
| The ultimate in decadence is a full length terrycloth bathrobe at a naked encampment. | ||||||
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| Revelation | 10 August 2002 | |||||
| You can't hide the truth from a poet. | ||||||
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| A Question of Hope | 17 October 2000 | |||||
| Is there hope for someone who only feels whole when merged with another? | ||||||
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| Last updated: 10 November 2022 | ||||||