The Asses of Parnassus

If you had called, it would not matter, but I remember when it would. I am not mad and feel no sadder, but wish I could.

You follow laws that teach the love of lawn with hollow honey-tonguèd eulogies to our beloved butterflies and bees? O statesmen of suburbia, they're gone for want of weed to feed upon.

Two trades are not worth getting into: That’s dealing drugs and trading crypto.

As second childishness and mere oblivion Draw near, I leave the lights above the privy on.

Rich puppeteers might think they pull some strings, But how naively they make bullies kings.

I'm not a prude, but having viewed

this multitude of nude, nude, nude,

I'm in a mood that's far from lewd.

My attitude is "Really, dude?"

There has to be a reason I hate "Wonderwall" so much,    Though frankly I'm unsure about the basis: Do I despise the song--the lyric, melody, and such--    Or is it that I simply loathe Oasis?

Robert sure had balls. This gum-gatherer is none other than Wordsworth’s leech-gatherer in flannel shirt and overalls.

For the first time in oh-so-many years I hear mosquitoes whining in my ears.

A poem-hating critic might, Say that tiresome poems just say, "Life is fleeting." That could be right, It might be trite, But the message somehow bears repeating. 

I understand that a correct plural of index is indices, but please don't expect I'll blow my nose in kleenices.

Cajoled by Ashley M, I stare, Then answer back, as is my wont: "Life’s short," you say, "have an affair?" Eternity looks longer.  Don’t.

The gross misinformation spewed by strangers and by friends Has infinite capacity to spawn--it never ends. These errors that engulf us do not yield, will not relent; I set so many people straight, and still the world is bent.

I live for beauty and its pain; To die for it? A death in vain.

Detraction was the attraction.

You are such a flaming narcissist while preening as a learned Classicist. Like Catullus, hendecasyllables on sex are what you write to get you banned on X.

The werewolves were hot And the vampires sucked. The hero found love But she never got fucked.