Poetry Is So Vital To

When You're The Only Pea In The Pod, Your Parents Are Likely To Get You Confused With The Hope Diamond.

One Of The Many Burdens Of The Person Professing Christianity Has Always Been The Odium Likely To Be Heaped Upon Him By Fellow Christians Quick To Smell Out, Denounce And Punish Fraud, Hypocrisy And General Unworthiness Among Those Who Assert The Faith. In Ruder Days, Disputes About What Constituted A Fully Qualified Christian Often Led To Sordid Quarrels In Which The Disputants Tortured, Burned And Hanged Each Other In The Conviction That Torture, Burning And Hanging Were Christian Things To Do.

Misery No Longer Loves Company. Nowadays It Insists On It.

What [man Landing On The Moon] Is Doing Up There Is Indulging His Obsession With The Impossible. The Impossible Infuriates And Tantalizes Him. Show Him An Impossible Job And He Will Reduce It To A Possibility So Trite That Eventually It Bores Him.

Skins Tanned To The Consistency Of Well-traveled Alligator Suitcases.