VONNEGUT

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“By working hard at becoming wise and reasonable and well-informed,
you have made our little planet a saner place than it was before you got here.
So thank you for that…”

I used to feel that never,
Would I have to leave my prime.
But as I write this,
I can feel decline.
And it’s not near done.
Still can’t make one single line,
Without casting doubt,
And rethinking every rhyme.
Can’t parse these bars,
Without reworking my mind.
Vonnegut on rewind,
“God damn it, you’ve got to be kind.”
Let it be said, it runs on an infinite loop in my head.
Genuine Wittgenstein taking time to align,
And excavate these expressions.
Leave the meaning unearthed,
From out the dirt.
Is that the real reason for all I blurt?
What nerve to try to immortalize my own words!
What nerd would think such work is worth a record?!
And thirst to be heard by the herd,
And break the dull trance?
To perhaps enhance minds
To learn to cull “can’t”s?
When everything that happens is just happenstance,
I still am what i am, even if just by circumstance.

“As long as there is a lower class, I’m in it.
As long as there is a criminal element, I am of it.
As long as there is a soul in prison, I am not free.”

“When things are going well,
sweetly and peacefully, please pause a moment
and then say out loud, “If this isn’t nice, what is?”

“And only well-informed, warm-hearted people
can teach others things they’ll always remember and love.
Computers and TVs can never do that.
A computer teaches a child what a computer can become.
An educated human being teaches a child what a child can become.”

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from CURMUDGEON, released January 20, 2020

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