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“We tend to forget that happiness doesn't come as a result of getting something we don't have, but rather of recognizing and appreciating what we do have.”--Frederick Keonig

“Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.”--Source Unknown

“You just have to do your own thing, no matter what anyone says. It's your life.”
--Ethan Embry



Incomplete

It's no mystery,
this place is run by its history.
Yesterday's hooker,
is tomorrow's beauty queen
in the reincarnating scheme of things.
You can be King one moment,
bossing servants around,
then you can be lower than a servant
scrounging for scraps on the ground.
I was a butterfly once,
and now I am a lion, chasing
things about the jungle
that will one day be me.







Where is your fortune, and fame?

You reached for the bright lights,
but wound up a loser.

"Loser" must be defined.
Do you feel like a loser,
or are you just a loser
in other people's eyes?
So...if you don't care
what they think, but
are doing what you want
to do, and not what
they want you to do,
or think thank you should be
doing, are you then a winner?









Rich is inside your head

Your life was laced with charity
but you were too blind to see
the opportunity for gratitude.
You moped around feeling sad
as if the world owed you something
you wound up with nothing
because that is the way you felt.
The opportunity for wealth
lies within you
not everyone who is rich
has lots of money.









In the end

You can write, or read,
fight or fuck,
walk the dogs,
or let them shit all over the floor.
You can eat animals,
you can drive cars,
pass tests that other people
have created to tell you
how smart you are.
You can live, or die;
go to Heaven or Hell,
be cremated, or buried.
And, in the end it won't matter
if you had a swimming pool
in your backyard, or a beamer
parked in the drive.
If you die alone,
locked in your house,
your dogs might eat your brains
to survive.


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