{"id":768,"date":"2015-02-22T09:25:53","date_gmt":"2015-02-22T14:25:53","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/?p=768"},"modified":"2015-02-22T09:25:53","modified_gmt":"2015-02-22T14:25:53","slug":"hard-boiled-words-just-the-facts-mam","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/hard-boiled-words-just-the-facts-mam\/","title":{"rendered":"Hard Boiled Words (just the facts mam)"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Good people kill \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0other good people.<\/p>\n<p>Ugly people have babies \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0 beautiful babies.<\/p>\n<p>Prostitutes have mothers \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0mothers have prostitutes.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Presidents are made, not elected and<\/p>\n<p>some day have to stand naked.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Blood isn&#8217;t bloody easy to remove.<\/p>\n<p>Running water moves mountains.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dogs piss to mark territory.<\/p>\n<p>Men get pissed and then mark territory.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Elephants never forget what they don&#8217;t know.<\/p>\n<p>Small microbes can topple the largest of men.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The eye can&#8217;t see itself.<\/p>\n<p>Fire can&#8217;t burn fire.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Everything is an accident or nothing is.<\/p>\n<p>God doesn&#8217;t play with dice, he plays with men<\/p>\n<p>(because men play with themselves).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dice don&#8217;t believe in chance &#8211;<\/p>\n<p>their number always comes up.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A horse is a horse.<\/p>\n<p>A man isn&#8217;t a horse.<\/p>\n<p>Man&#8217;s task is to find out why he isn&#8217;t a horse.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Honor is what we will do some somebody else<\/p>\n<p>but never for ourselves.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The first laws were created by criminals as justice, a justice &#8211; fictation.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ends, it only changes<\/p>\n<p>like a newton became a fig newton.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>War was created so man could be at peace.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>ART is not art.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>So many countries but only one sky.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Man is more what he thinks and less what he lives.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Crows are also black birds.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A wink is as good as a nod to a blind man<\/p>\n<p>but a nudge works every time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A forest is a good place for rest.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>There are only two kinds of people.<\/p>\n<p>Collectors and garbage collectors.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Why is potato salad like a holy sock?<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Dirty underwear is made to be washed.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A cup in only a cup because it has nothing inside it.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Church pews aren&#8217;t built for comfort.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We reap what we owe. \u00a0We weep what we sow.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Quantity affects quality.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Beauty is a blemish and a blemish is beauty.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Rome wasn&#8217;t built in a day but a person is created in an instant.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Too much good is much worse than a little bad.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A spoiled bottle of wine gives all the others their taste.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Music is man&#8217;s indifference to time.<\/p>\n<p>Time conquered through mimicked time.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We only obey the cop because of their uniform.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>We live only so we can sleep (but we don&#8217;t know this).<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Prison&#8217;s are built with the bricks of righteousness.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Drunks never get hurt when they fall because<\/p>\n<p>they cannot envision what might happen to them.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>A guitar with a broken string can still play a song.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Infidelity is a means of confirming our infidelity.<\/p>\n<p>Every marriage is a giving up. In effect we say, &#8220;defeated I win.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cease fires are agreements to re-load.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Cemetaries always have the greenest lawns.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>The poet dies on the page.<\/p>\n<p>The only good poet is a dying poet.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Sometimes even the president of the IMF<\/p>\n<p>has to wipe his own ass.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>Nothing ever ends, it&#8217;s only bandaged&#8230;&#8230;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&nbsp; Good people kill \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0other good people. Ugly people have babies \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0 beautiful babies. Prostitutes have mothers \u00a0 &#8211; \u00a0mothers have prostitutes. &nbsp; Presidents are made, not elected and some day have to stand naked. &nbsp; Blood isn&#8217;t bloody easy to remove. Running water moves mountains. &nbsp; Dogs piss to mark &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/hard-boiled-words-just-the-facts-mam\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Hard Boiled Words (just the facts mam)<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[12],"class_list":["post-768","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-poetry","tag-philosophy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=768"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":769,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/768\/revisions\/769"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=768"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=768"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/ddeubel.me\/poetry\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=768"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}