Best Cynics Poems

Ceramic pots of orchids tumble from the 24th floor
and grow as they fall as we all do through the air
within fractions of time hoping for something more
never clear about the history of all that came before

Or the point where the future starts and the past...

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Cynics really bug me
They annoy me no end
They're always quite willing
Their point to defend

It doesn't hold water
With this big happy soul
I look on the bright side
My only life's goal

They're always unhappy
What a horrible life
I'd hate to be married
To a lifetime of strife

Why can't they see
There's...

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Do you know why men choose to suffer alone? 
because we still gotta live with the decision 
despite taking in someone else's opinion 
If we really told you what we were living with 
could you help us? 
No, we gotta play the hand we were...

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One:
Wake up slowly.
Admit it was never that deep.
Let your first word be hmmm.
Let your second be whatever.

Two:
Stretch, but not like you mean it.
Pop one joint, then stop.
You are not an overachiever.
You’re alive. That’s enough.

Three:
Brew something hot
and unnecessarily complicated.
Call it process.
Sip. Sigh.
Spill a little on purpose.

Four:
Reintroduce...

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