Proverbs
Tis better to have loved and lost your keys than to never have loved at all
Tis better to have loved and not lost at all
Tis better to have loved and lost your mind than to lose your mind under ordinary circumstances
Tis better to be blind than to be the blind leading the blind
Tis wiser to suffer slings than to take an arrow to the head
Tis better to be rich and healthy than to be sick and poor
Tis better to have loved and lost once than to have it happen twice
Tis better to know one’s enemies than not
One should keep his enemies so close to him he forgets what they are
One should count as many chickens as he likes and eat his rooster, by all means
One should count one’s eggs before deciding how many to give to the neighbors
Tis better to fry an egg on the hot hood of a car than in the kitchen of a husband
Tis better to freeze one’s eggs than to break an omelet waiting around for nothing
You can’t wait around for nothing without breaking a few eggs
Good things come to those who wait to freeze their eggs
Good deeds go unnoticed
Good deeds pave the road to hell
The wrath of woman is given by the legless snake
The last man is missing a rib
Great minds think alike
Like father like son, except the one son
One son falls far from the tree but the other sons trust him better
Tis better to trust the gut than to mind the dumb cooing of the heart
Tis better to let the heart wander than to wonder from afar
I love it when the heart grows fonder
A heart unexamined is worth bleeding
Tis better to know one’s heart is deaf to analogy
It isn’t like anything
One oughtn’t make comparisons
Apples are like oranges in that they are both fruits, however oranges have sections whereas apples do not have any sections
Apples have a small tidbit of real poison in each seed
Whereas oranges have sour threads of string
Comparing these is easy
One ought not compare them, due to the ease
Please do not fix anything until it is completely broken
Please call me when you read this
Do not feed the animals, put the food calmly on the lawns before them
Please call me to say hi
Just call to say I love you
A woman gives her heart only once
A woman I know gave her heart three times though
I know a woman who gave her heart over and over
A heart has four chambers, whereas I do not know how many sections has a tangelo
A heart is a metaphor for the core of whatever
Chamber comes from a French room
Is there room for two? There is not room for two, the heart gets given once I said
Once I said something like that, only to everyone
Once I said that it ceased to be real
It was like the present, never experienced in the moment
Experience cannot teach you everything
Time is the teacher who kills his students
Who is the best teacher? Time is
Who taught you everything you know
Who said anything about he who has a heavy heart must lug it around with him
Who has the blackest lung
What pink lung is not a naïve and ridiculous lung
Is a lamb a wolf in a sheepskin?
What is sheep’s milk’s lactose content, roughly?
Why would a sheep’s milk cheese age
Why must bacteria become better with age and still not die
Is age nothing but a number?
Age is a fanciful, well-timed song, yes
Must a lone wolf always limp
Is a lonely person so easily radicalized?
How extreme can a lost soul become
What about a lonely person with a dead heart
What about a sick-hearted fool
What about the people who haven’t a spirit
Low and sick spirits have destroyed some people I know
What about the young hearts that pump the veins of the very old?
And when they waltz and the blood is shaking?
What of the shaking blood of the youth when they can’t quite kiss
How is this to do with the deep fright of stages
What of the buckling of the knees atop a cliff
What of the Empire State Building’s observation area’s romances
What of the thin blood of the drunk
What of the furious rushing of the drunk woman’s thin blood
What of the thin blood carrying itself around in the body of the wailing and bereft
What of the synchronized heartbeat of the babe on the breast
From atop the Empire State Building what’s visible suggests life but it’s not exactly life
What’s visible from cliffs is hardly alive but some indication of action
From atop some down I saw a channel but no action
I did not see a single fish
Is the sole fish as lonely as the lone wolf?
Where and when is a sole alone?
Is a single Dover sole the saddest sole in the school?
What if two single soles meet on the floor
Sole is an example of a fish named for its tongue
A fish cannot see you from the sea nor can it see the water
What water? says the fish to fish
A fish out of water feels lonely and heartbroken
Fish have eyes all over their bodies
There is more than just one fish in the sea
Fish are all over the place, and not a sip to drink
Fish like to stick together
One should throw back all of the fish one grabs onto
One should not give a man a fish every single day of his life
One’s meant to teach a skill to feed him
One should not give a single man a fish every day of his life
I once taught a man to fish
But what he wanted was the actual fish
A fresh fish, each day, in the flesh –
I gave him them, and when I stopped
He ate just fine from the land