Short Lipstick On A Pig Poems

Sarah Palin
Former governor, limelight failing
Famous quotes sometimes loom big:
You can’t put lipstick on a pig...

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connie you dress up your poems beautiful-still it squeaks and squirms

Lipstick on a pig-
Monoku 5-cliche

connie pachecho

1/04/17

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No matter what you do in samsara 
in the effort to improve samsara, 
improve yourself, improve others, 
it’s still samsara.

All effort, all improvement, never leaves the wheel, 
but that doesn’t mean there’s only the wheel. 

The wheel is what spins, ever-changing,
the embodiment of impermanence, 
but what it spins in
spins around, 
spins for,
is another story altogether.

(8/19/23)...

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“A No Brainer”
If balancing a checkbook is a no brainer, why can’t I do it

“Hit below the belt”
As a guy I don’t even want to go there

“I’m all ears”
No wonder I can’t smell or see

“Play it by ear”
No wonder I cant play banjo, I’ve been using my fingers

“Think outside the box”
I tried that once and they closed the lid on me

“Plenty of fish in the sea”
If so, why can’t I catch any?

“Put lipstick on a pig”
Do pigs even have lips?
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