Epigrams
Loudly conducting his business,
Drinking coffee and taking a call,
What I find as I try not to listen is
That he’s talking of nothing at all.
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Freedom of speech,
Won with violence.
Did the Founders consider
The virtues of silence?
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One thing the world’s forgotten, to its loss:
One’s born human but learns humanitas.
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Cursed be contracts, property, and torts -
A pox on casebooks, on every teacher warts!
I dreamt the law would bring me untold riches;
Instead I’m stuck with numbskulls, bores, and bitches.
If only I’d listened when they said ‘don’t go’ !
There’s no kind worse than self-inflicted woe.
ANON.