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“Oh, you hate your job? Why didn’t you say so? There’s a support group for that. It’s called EVERYBODY, and they meet at the bar.”—Drew Carey

Sneering Ear to Eear 1

Head of human resources
Weaned in a square barred playpen
Bred for the egg-crate rat race
Gleaned the art of sneering then

The brain is a wonderful organ; it starts working the moment you get up in the morning and does not stop until you get into the office.

―Robert Frost

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“Unusual travel directions are dancing lessons from God.”—Kurt Vonnegut

Beside the Path 1

On the rive gauche in French
One is not maladroit
Who hangs left for a stretch
To gain la route à droite
Beside the path

Sometimes people need to take the wrong path in order to lead them to the right one.

―Nashoda Rose

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“At the typewriter you find out who you are.”—Tom Robbins

My Blue Pencil 1

When Underwood dings
I stop typing till
I’m done sharpening
My B
lue Pencil

Writing is easy. All you have to do is cross out the wrong words.

—Mark Twain

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“My life is a mosaic, and there’s no room in between pieces at all.”—Marcia Clark

Mosaic Mile 1

They meet by serendipity,
in a surreal mirage of tile;
paired and spared for eternity,
to stand on the mosaic mile.

What is called good society is usually nothing but a mosaic of polished caricatures.

—Karl Wilhelm Friedrich Schlegel

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“There are more things in heaven and earth, Horatio, Than are dreamt of in your philosophy.” —Hamlet, Prince of Denmark

Bard's Honest Truth 1

Shakespeare’s Prince of Denmark tells his scholarly pal, Horatio, of encountering a talking ghost wearing his late father’s armor and crown: an absurdity undreamt in Horatio’s philosophy, with which he is endowed by the enlightened rational faculty of the Bard of Avon.

Absurdity, n.: A statement or belief manifestly inconsistent with one’s own opinion.

—Ambrose Bierce

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“The mind is like an umbrella. It’s most useful when open.” —Walter Gropius

Stoic Umbrella 1

Won’t flip inside-out in a gust
Nor flap like a gull in a gale
Impassively as iron rusts
The stoic umbrella prevails

Let a smile be your umbrella, and you’ll end up with a face full of rain.

—George Carlin

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“There are two ways to live: you can live as if nothing is a miracle; you can live as if everything is a miracle.” —Albert Einstein

Miraculous Way 1

 

Miraculous is the way
To view the mystery displayed
Upon the screen of all we survey

Let us make our hearts as big as an ocean, to go beyond all the trifles of the world and see it only as a picture.

—Swami Vivekenanda

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“Life is like a ten speed bicycle. Most of us have gears we never use.” —Charles M. Schulz

Round the bipedal ring
A slotted loop of links
Clacks tandem wheels in sync
Reels the scenery screen

It is the unknown around the corner that turns my wheels.

—Heinz Stucke

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“Who tells a finer tale than any of us. Silence does.” —Isak Dinesen

The tone of gloaming fog
A horn croaks like a frog
A long low silent moan
A windblown hollow log

Silence is as deep as eternity, speech as shallow as time.

—Thomas Carlyle

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“A harvest of peace grows from seeds of contentment.” –Indian proverb

Human Invention 1

In the preface of history
Humans are made with invention
By the grace of their deities
The sublime in their perfection

The contented man can be happy with what appears to be useless.

—Hung Ko

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