The View From A Passenger's Deck:
Everyone knows,
The measures proposed
To stop the ships' leaks will fail.
(But on the wind rides the hint
That to do any less would be fatal.)

 

One man privately changed his name to Allegory
so that after ten at night,
when he was a child,
he'd know where he was.

While everything else was otherwise quiet, a man cried out, "Stop all that noise!"
And replied, "It's only me."
Then said, "Well, okay then."
(While everything else was otherwise quiet.)

And now Our Inspirational Thought For The Day
For Those Living In Condemned Trailer Parks & Expensive Condos:
Those who can't think good,
think everybody else thinks like they do.

And now The Odds Makers Speak:
The spread between the extremes of routine human thinking
is so small that it
would not even accommodate something the size
of an alpha wolf's artistic talents.
(For "alpha wolf," the non-zoologically inclined may substitute the name of any palavering public figure.)
[Oh yeah -- and don't forget you, as a possibility.]

A man who'd once heard it said that the reason it was useless for a mystic to debate an ordinary mind is because (even given all the time in the universe) the latter will never even come up with a suitable topic, was suddenly struck that the same was true regarding the attempt to analyze what ordinarily took place in his own mind.

There be five conditions under which it is difficult to get people interested in going to Panama:
One is they believe they're already there.
Two, they don't know any benefit in going.
Three, they don't know how to get there
even if they wanted to go.
Four they don't believe Panama actually exists.
And Five, they're afraid even if it does exist,
and they wanted to go,
and did actually get there,
that they wouldn't have anything appropriate to wear,
and everyone would laugh at them.

(You see, even when it takes numbers in the high single digits,
People will always find a way out of any practical interest in that Great twin-ocean state.)

What drives the mind to religion,
Or faith in political and social institutions
Is the clung-to hope that
Amidst all the chaos
Somewhere lies an orderly numbers system.