ACROSS THE VAST OPEN RANGE
as if to demonstrate
his roping talents
the cowpuncher looses up his lasso
and throws it afar and straight
dropping it right over
nouns like grizzly bears
verbs like coyotes
adjectives like eagles
and other function words
like buzzards
before the snowstorm sweeps all
the creatures from the prairies
from BUOYS
1. There is light in every dream we have in darkness.
3. The meaning of life, if any at all, is to create a meaning for
life.
6. A house for sale is never a home, while a heart unoccupied is a hotel for
rent.
7. Freedom is the thin distance between the fleeing mouse and the chasing cat.
9. True wealth is measured by the number of times you say no or take a shower.
10. Birth throws us out into different times whereas death recalls us to the
same place.
11. One most rewarding self-entertainment is masturbating with the idea of
death.
12. Those who carve their love on their chestbones often fall in love together
with their used lipsticks or handkerchiefs.
13. This is not simply a grammtical game of changing the voice: every man loves
a woman, but a woman is not loved by every man, and et cetera or vice
versa.
15. There are almost as many animals that have taken off their human clothes as
humans that have put on their animal skins.
17. Growth is painful because it means a series of deaths of our pasts, while
death can be pleasant because it may result from a series of births of our
presents.
18. Misfortune is a peculiar privilege.
21. You may have everything except disease or nothing except money.
22. Humans are different from animals in that they wear garments, build walls,
tell tales and eat each other.
24. Every life is a work of art; however, not every work of art is a life.
25. Only those determined to reform others can hope to be reformed.
26. Art is a bizarre business of dying there or living forever.
27. He is happy who is not afraid not to be rich, sexual, famous or powerful.
30. In this age of information, we are all fish swimming freely before the net
is towed onto the boat.
31. With the whole world becoming so crowded with salespersons, it is high time
to invent new alien buyers for our hearts and souls.
34. Democracy is a government of, by, and for the few most manipulative.
35. You may have as many futures as new beginnings, but you can have only one
past and one present.
36. Wisdom and religion are different in form but identical in essence: while
religion is a ritualized social practice of wisdom, wisdom is an art of
staying happy without having to be successful in a social sense.
37. Many stars have already died long before their light reaches our eyes.
38. Schooling is either an interruption or an intervention of learning.
39. Mask is the only garment that will never go out of fashion.
40. Like god who invented man to expel him from heaven, man invented money to
drive himself to hell.
