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Recent Ponderables

by Alan Harris


No ego is too big for a license plate.




Clichés certainly take it on the chin.




Was yesterday's forever a day longer than today's?




Dandelions bring comic relief to the more serious lawns.




Gather together several hundred million people,
most of whom are irritated,
and you have America.




You know it's going to be a bad day
when you look at the bathroom mirror
and there's nobody there.




Cities happen.




I don't know what happens after death.
I don't even know what happens in Cincinnati.




If it weren't for life,
a lot of things would be harder to do.




To learn what a penny is worth,
throw it away and list the things
you can no longer buy.




While some search for the Holy Grail,
others search for a good buy on plastic cups.




Perhaps the airlines hire men
with deep, confident voices
and teach them how to fly.




In education, whatever helps, helps.
Whatever doesn't, is flapdoodle.




Trusting the universe might be easier
if we could find it.






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