By: John Holbo

“To be good — to be whole!/But first you shall be — stranger!”

By: John Holbo

“For there’s this — the abyss/Is no sight you should miss!”

By: John Holbo

“If it’s UP you would go/First you must go below”

By: John Holbo

“Each new wave’s solemn vow:/Now is NOW!”

By: John Holbo

“Like some bird whose high perch has/Been axed, cleaved and cleft!”

By: John Holbo

“By the past, in the lurch, you/Will find yourselves left!”

By: John Holbo

“Tomorrow is golden-NEW/This should embolden you!”

By: John Holbo

“For casting a cast/To catch something quite VAST!”

By: John Holbo

“That’s WHY fortune’s fickler/And WHY I’m a stickler”

By: John Holbo

“History pickles/The things of the past!”

By: John Holbo

“Dame Fortune/Is fickler than that/(If you’ve met her!)”

By: John Holbo

Vs. “Grandma’s old recipe/For being better and better.”

By: James Parker

“A neck-nape to send you on a week-long bender.”

By: James Parker

“It bloats the franchise./It increases its pantsize.”

By: James Parker

“Sadder than sad with my old-man spigot./Can you dig it?”