Friday, February 17, 2017

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

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