Someone you know in every sketch
One day it was there where it wasn’t beforeA random thought, like a spot on the floorIt was an idea I had never hadI didn’t think it was good, I didn’t think was bad It was just a thought, it was fleeting and fastI hardly even noticed the thought as it passedIt was there for …
It’s different for everyoneWe all love in different waysYou don’t get to choose how someone else loves youYou just get to choose the personHow can you love someone else if you don’t love yourself? Do you even get to choose yourself? It’s complicated Sometimes you don’t get to choose the other personSometimes you know the …
The art of failing is not hard to masterYou don’t need to wait for a natural disasterYou don’t need instruction from an expert taskmasterYou don’t need the blessing of your local pastor Or the prognostications of a trained forecasterIf you have a choice, don’t fail slowly, fail fasterEither way it will happen before you’re ready, …
It all started with an idea that you thought was goodYou knew you could do it but wondered if you shouldIt was a new game for you and you didn’t know the rulesAnd it felt like you were starting over in school You can’t start at the top, when you’re a beginnerThe competition is thick …
The truth about life is it’s a performanceThe implications of this are enormousYou can always choose to perform yourselfOr you can make the choice to play someone else Either way what you do is part of a roleYou’re either pretending or baring your soulEverything else derives from this choiceYour character, your values, your destiny, your …
This has got to be the hardest thing yetIn fact, it may be as hard as it getsI’ve spent my whole life trying to be Something someone else once wanted for me I have been letting other people I knowDecide how I should act and where I should goAvoiding conflict and trying to pleaseIt’s like a terrible terminal chronic …
It was only a relative short time agoThe world still felt fresh and newThe gods walked on the earthThe animals spoke and played tricksFresh and new after billions of yearsNow that’s what you callHaving things worked out But, now the earth feels tired and wornIt happened in just a few yearsThe memory is fadingThe memory …
They can’t hide their innate selfishnessWhatever they do, they call it their bestWhen they’re being benevolent they’re still being selfishHardly anyone ever does that thing they call selfless They create excuses and call them reasonsAnd fashions are the way they tune into seasonsThey’re petty and cruel and like feeling superiorThey pretty much judge everything by its …
In the present moment the future is taking shapeIt passes like a thief making his escapeWhile we hold on to our memories and stroke our desiresTrying to figure out what being a god requires We place our bets wondering if we’re wagering enoughPretending each hand is not another bluffWe’re convinced we know we’ve got what …
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Lao Tse may have said some things that weren’t timelessPlato might have had a few thoughts that were mindlessBut even if they recorded their lunatic thoughtsThe curation of time has made sure they’ve been lost The same thing will happen to words written todayA time when everyone has something to sayWhere viral memes are treated …