A Month of Couplets

From The Daily Couplet:

1/15/17

Refusing help when tough times have you floored

Is like putting on armor when you fall overboard.

1/16/17

My need to help will never be exceeded—

Except by my desire to be needed.

1/17/17

Tomorrow’s dream wakes to this morning’s need.

Life is a treadmill that keeps changing speed.

1/18/17

It takes a slave to haughty Twitter fights

To mock a man who fought for civil rights.

1/19/17

When double-dealing cheats are told they’ve lied,

It doesn’t tarnish them—it feeds their pride.

1/20/17

The insecure invent their victories

By yelling “LOSER!” at their enemies.

1/21/17

All doors men lock open with this one key:

Well-behaved women don’t make history.

1/22/17 

         Women and experience

If you don't have it, then it doesn't count.

And when you do, it's not the right amount.

1/23/17 

             Misogyny’s Motto

“We don’t despise you girls—we love you all

When you’re submissive as a blow-up doll.”

1/24/17

Reason, advice and brains are for the birds

When POTUS only has 300 words.

1/25/17

When speech is silenced till it learns to please,

Freedom will die like frogs—boiled by degrees.

1/26/17

NIXON: “Freedom’s a trust  I won’t betray.”

MITCHELL: “Watch what we do, not what we say.”

1/27/17

        How Trump Defines

         American Carnage

If crime is blood, then skin is the stiletto.

If it has more than two blacks, it’s a ghetto.

1/28/17

What's easy: knowing I’m a work of art.

What's hard: not taking bad reviews to heart.

1/29/17

Affection’s pleasure and rejection’s pain—

That’s what comes of my heart being my brain

1/30/17

The rule of law’s been thrown under a bus.

What once was justice has become “Just us.”

1/31/17

When History is taught by subjugators,

Even the dead become collaborators.

2/1/17

In countries where the honest live in fear

The truth’s whatever tyrants want to hear.

2/2/17

When two hearts speak, love grows through compromise.

When one heart’s silent, then the other dies.

2/3/17

Abuse of power tempts till you’re okay with it:

It’s not abuse till you don’t get away with it.

2/4/17

                Two Ideas Of Love

He calls it stunning hype, and makes her swill it.

She calls it emptiness, so he can fill it.

2/5/17

                     Two Ideas Of Love

She hates it when he helps—it undermines her.

He offers help because that hate defines her.

2/6/17

Those who think Islam is a vicious cancer

Swear that a Christian jihad is the answer.

2/7/17

A West Bank war would be the Right’s white weddin’.

Pro-Israel? No—just pro-Armageddon.

2/8/17

Pence wants one trade to cure our culture’s blights:

The Ten Commandments for The Bill of Rights.

2/9/17

The Right is too divine for genuflections—

Except to those with money and connections.

2/10/17

The kind of men who like their women quiet

Think that equality will cause a riot.

2/11/17

This truth is hard, and hardly ever spoken:

Hearts can’t forgive till after they’ve been broken.

2/12/17

Empathy’s great, but problematical:

If I were you, we’d both be miserable.

2/13/17

        My Bloody Valentines 1

I know you’re superficial. I don’t care.

I love the underneath that isn’t there.

2/14/17

        My Bloody Valentines 2

The only crimes hearts should be victims of

Are hope, and falling helplessly in love.

2/15/17

        My Bloody Valentines 3

It’s subjugation that he finds appealing.

He wants the satisfaction—not the feeling.

2/16/17

        My Bloody Valentines 4

It’s always lust when reason is excluded

And never love unless it’s half-deluded.

2/17/17

        My Bloody Valentines 5

Love is like fruit—whether it’s cold or hot,

It always spoils from the softest spot.

2/18/17

               My Bloody Valentines 6

Steer clear of playwrights who propose romance—

They want to get into your actor pants.

2/19/17

            My Bloody Valentines 7

Because there’s selfishness behind my eyes,

Loving me is a hand-job in disguise.

Copyright 2017 Matthew J Wells