The Wage
Jessie Rittenhouse
I bargained with Life for a penny,
And Life would pay no more,
However I begged at evening
When I counted my scanty store;
For Life is a just employer,
He gives you what you ask,
But once you have set the wages,
Why, you must bear the task.
I worked for a menial’s hire,
Only to learn, dismayed,
That any wage I […]

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If
Rudyard Kipling
If you can keep your head when all about you
Are losing theirs and blaming it on you;
If you can trust yourself when all men doubt you,
But make allowance for their doubting too;
If you can wait and not be tired by waiting,
Or being lied about, don’t deal in lies,
Or being hated, don’t give way to […]

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In this area are poems and shorts of great importance to me and crappy poetry that I have written.  Enjoy.

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The Aburdist came to me in an epiphany one day in my early 20’s.  I had relatively little experience with people at the time, but at that age, I thought that everyone was an idiot.
 As I aged, like old, fermented cheese, I realized that my experiences with people did not change.  I continued to have […]

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