One reason that cats are happier than people is that they have no newspapers. - Gwendolyn Brooks

Poetry is life distilled. –

It is not necessary, says Yvonne,
to have every day with him whom
to the end thereof you will love.
Because it is tasty to remember
he is alive, and laughs
in somebody else’s room.
or is slicing a cucumber,
or is buttoning his cuffs,
or is signing with his pen
and will plan
to touch you again.

Nary a grin grinned Rudolph Reed,
Nary a curse cursed he,
But moved in his House. With his dark little wife,
And his dark little children three.