Butt-Naked

The world is like a dogcatcher’s cap.

Our Universe is shaped like a thorn.

There are beaks in an egg.

Sharks do not die of old age—let’s extract that.

Is my raincoat acid-proof, or merely acid-resistant?

One uses a bulldozer to carve a mountainside, a hammer and chisel to carve a stone, a surfboard to carve a bottomturn, a knife to carve a turkey, and a scalpel to carve a human being. Carve—we are fluid with it. Do we simply uncover the form that lies therein through displacement, or do we create?

Too many surfaces, not enough holes!

Economics: As of today, all debts are forgiven—from what you’ve borrowed from your friends to what your nation has borrowed against its future—World-Wide Debt Removal Day. Slate is clear. Will this preclude the collapse of friendships and the world economy?—Or simply kill-off the loansharks? If everybody owns what they’ve borrowed against to possess—will we be rich? This announcement must be immediate—no premeditation—Group of Seven or whatever announces that all debts are forgiven—Get on with your lives! As of Now!

We all know economics is a game. Money is nothing but Monopoly money. Yet we’re afraid to whisper into the Emperor’s ear—"Most benevolent Grand Vizier, your god-like presence engenders us with the will to live, you are the gift of all pleasures, all happiness. But, sire, please forgive me, you’re butt-naked."

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