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Toothsome Subject

“Why is it called a toothbrush?”
(he asked rhetorically)
as I use it to brush more than one
it makes no sense to me
surely 'teethbrush' would be correct
for dental care and gums
so from now on that's what I'll use
to remove food residue between my teeth
while I still have some

A Qualitative Report on a Single Subject Ego Death

Hypothesis:
What is an ego anyways
Are we born with it
And from the moment we have the willpower 
we’re tasked with muting it
Or does it grow from experiences of rejection
Fed by whom? 
Is it intrinsically preserving,
Extrinsically repelling…
For the sake of avoiding philosophical debate
Let’s say we have an agreed upon theory

Experiment:
I’d like to think my ego dissolved
The moment my mother dropped me
From her arms before I ever had a chance to challenge Piaget’s concept of object permanence 
And when I plummeted to reality
I landed upon the selfless idea
That if their need for affirmation 
Could supersede my need for survival
Then I could keep from ever falling so tragically again

Analysis:
And though ego death happens in silence
It’s showboating that sustains ego life 
Suppose one without the death 
could never question their impulses. 
Without an initial fall
The ego can’t even see it’s own reflection

Premium Member A Weighty Subject

   Appetites grow

    Metabolism slows


Premium Member the subject is sleeping -1-

sleep something away
thing trades day ~ that's slept away
e'er slept day away

to burn the candle
at both ends ~ workaholics
early grave earners

sleepover at friends
or your place ~ white Lab/doghouse
spare room o'er garage.

to let sleeping dogs
lie ~ let go say no more ~ OR
stir the fire and burn

to go to bed with
the chickens mean early to
bed early to rise

to sleep with fishes
gangster talk ~ murder dump in
body of water

Premium Member the subject is sleeping -2-

to lose sleep over
a person or per thing just
sleep dream best not worse
-OR-
to lose sleep over
a person or per thing then
just stay up and worry

to put one or thing 
to sleep one is bored to sleep
or euthanized pets
-OR-
to put somebody
                               to sleep read H*'** P**'** <--told Tolstoy keep writing
verbosities yikes/writes

rocking to sleep use
back-forth-motion helps ~ OR
use real rocks ~ they'll sleep

Premium Member the subject is water -4- FINAL

water under the
bridge ~ past wrongs can't fix life flows
free of wrongs can't fix

I'll go to pay the 
water bill ~ means someone will
go to urinate

to walk on water
 ~ do the impossible that
which is difficult

carry fire in one
hand and water in other
hand ~ meant to deceive

throw the baby out
with the bath water ~ means junk 
and jewel gets tossed

to spend money like
water ~


Premium Member the subject is water -3-

muddy the waters
 ~ taking all the footwear when
the rain starts to fall

Father waters he'll
hold ~ I swear it's gospel truth
chicken little's right 

pour cold water on
should stop fights with you ~ but not
all sayings perfect

uncharted waters
 ~ idea map for ships to
follow make-up one

be water off a
duck's back ~ finger pointing an
axe to grind slander

blood is thicker than
water ~ our family line
has drawn our pure blood

Premium Member the subject is water -2-

fish out of water
 ~ drowns to death in an ocean 
of new blue yonder

one can talk under
water ~ is Aussie's saying
one who's talkative

like a duck takes to
water ~ are folks showing off
acting like a duck

to dip one's toe in
the water ~ are baby steps
slow start to master

one oar in water
 ~ is home lights left on while light
in your brains is off

get one's head above
water ~ is to stand up tall
and see how shallow

Premium Member the subject is rain

to rain on someone's 
parade ~ is spoil ruin someone's
fun joy happiness

saving for rainy
days ~ are when good turned bad and
you're ready for it

raincheck ~ simplify's
life scheduled prupose arranged
sequentially yours

charge it to the dust 
and let the rain settle it
 ~ just pay or get out

come in out of the 
rain ~ it's a losing battle
wake up to the facts

it’s raining pitchforks
British to rain stair rods ~ is
to rain heavily

Premium Member the subject is water -1-

if you are in deep
water ~ you're in a fix/catch
can't patch nor fix it

blowing thing/s out from
water ~ is winning and let
the loser know it

to be like oil and
water ~ whence aha moment
be a couple's fate 

to cast one's bread on
water ~ whence thank you's silence
is golden ... and more

Premium Member the subject is bees

having a bee in
one’s bonnet ~ is to be wrapped
up in obsessed with

the honey trap ~ is
an attractive or handsome
looks woos your fondness

the bee's knee's ~ is
something new like an iPhone
or your shoes hair style

the birds and the bees
 ~ birds do it bees do it and
                         smart-as-heck fleas SEX (Cole Porter's is: 
                                                               educated/smart-as-heck 
                                                               used to fit in the point--  
                                                               SEX)
    
what's meant float like a
butterfly sting like a bee
 ~ life perseverance

Premium Member A Third Quantum Subject Specifics: The Applications of Murphy's Law - Part I: ASKING

Upon receipt of this paraphrase whenever it visits upon your person--free of dire straits and in trepidation, its infamous adage, "Anything that can go wrong will go wrong," subject to limits. 

I've equivocated or tossed-up similarities of circumstances and their eventual outcome via two terse verse coursing, about a couple of other postings below this one.

It is--I strongly advise--recommended reading for matters of consequence hereafter, for such they'd be an exemplar for a better you. 

Equivocation is hiding the truth, sway lies your way ... by telling a story, or stories. 

If quantum knowledge serves you well, you'll see the clarity--via the obscurity and levity--and the light at the end of its veracity.

I think we're in trouble mate
why, what's wrong
I saw the pilot reading a manual
was it how to land a plane in a storm
no, how to fly one
???---!.

there's no life preservers on this ship, mate
I heard this captain say that the ship has a full complement on board
so what does that mean
well after the ship sinks
we'll just sit tight
with no life preservers
there'll be plenty
just wait a while
give or take ... !

Premium Member Violence Of The Rams: Quantum Subject Specifics - Poetically Concise

Tis the way of life's challenge as an adult male,
the prize parts in two fates: flock ownership tethered
innate skills, exiting rights the Bachelor's Herd
as skills tested, foes midst or yond; fail or prevail.

Premium Member The Subject is Your Mind While Sleeping

A sullen
sickness
befallen me
from whence
a darkening
ventured
nigh
and stolen
the sparkling
embodiment
features of
stars
in the
gloaming
of the mundane
hovering misery
of shooting
dead stars
aloft my
head
aches now
fevers the whole
of me afire unceasing
as it spreads and
grasp my soul 
this simple
cover
to shield
the chill that
stills my blood 
like frost to ice and
flits burning back
to hell's hold
temporal
twas
until the
perspectives
exchanged one
to the other who
now lays its claim
and tortuous
name being
Dante
I wrapped
myself and
snuggling in
hopes to shrug
off this biting cold
that locks its icy grip
on my body and soul
if not for the beating
of my heart that it
reassures me 
that soon it
will pass
and end
malady
pursual of
my deepening
doctorless gloom
that will drift a parting
long-awaited since at first
my eyes had closed and will
soon be opening to the
welcoming vision of
her striking ascent
prepare myself
for that cure
is here ...
Aurora.

Subject matter

I hold that whenever the wind blows for instance 
   if it goes  the goes follow me to settle and perhaps 
   progress tomorrow 
  thus sometimes it may not matter the corner of the world 
 or how morning or afternoon or evening?, 
    I know it is sometimes glassy and bartering and unquit
 stone?,   well, what matters, matters most the soul 
   is gold never to waste like time like something?, what 
  thing is good for it now?.

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