Desiderwhata???

2007-03-10T17:48:00.001-05:00

Go placidly amid the noise and haste, and remember what peace there may be in silence, before it actually starts to drive you completely nuts and you have to turn on the T.V.
As far as possible without surrender, be on good terms with all persons, until they start fucking with you.
Speak your truth quietly and clearly; and listen to others, even dull, boring bastards; for they too have their story, which is usually so mind numbing that you'd rather be forced to chew aluminum foil than have to put up with them.
Avoid loud and aggressive persons, for they are vexations to the spirit and usually way, WAY, too much fun!
If you compare yourself with others, you may become vain and bitter or simply get depressed as shit; for there will always be greater or lesser persons than yourself, as if knowing this will be any comfort to you since you're a friggin' idiot.
Enjoy your achievements as well as your plans, to go to Disney World.
Keep interested in your own career, however humble; it is a real possession in the changing fortunes of time to be saddled with that crappy WalMart job or stuck in a damn cubical.
Exercise caution in your business affairs; for the world is full of trickery and nosy bastards, and sooner or later they'll find out that you're having an affair and tell everybody!
But let this not blind you to what virtue there is; many persons strive for high ideals before they start cutting corners and shaving the truth; and everywhere life is full of heroism, or was that heroin? I'm not sure...
Be yourself, since actually it is technically impossible to be anybody else.
Especially do not feign affection when all you're after is sex.
Neither be cynical about love; for in the face of all aridity and disenchantment it is as perennial as the grass and just as full of bugs and weeds.
Take kindly the counsel of the years, gracefully surrendering the things of youth because you'll look really stupid wearing hip hop clothing when your fifty.
Nurture strength of spirit, to approximately 80 proof, to shield you in sudden times of misfortune or to help you to just drown it out.
But do not distress yourself with imaginings, because honestly, your imagination is pretty lame-o, and many of your fears are born out of fatigue and loneliness and just taking far too many hits on that bong!
Beyond a wholesome discipline, be gentle with yourself, but not in public because people will stare and say, "Ewww!"
You are a child of the universe, no less than the trees and the stars, well...come to think of it, maybe less than the trees, but still you have a right to be here, until someone younger and cuter takes your place.
And whether or not it is clear to you, no doubt the universe is unfolding as it should, or maybe its being folded, or crumpled into a ball or something...
Therefore be at peace with GOD, whatever you conceive him to be, or your gonna roast in Hell, and whatever your labor and aspirations, in the noisy confusion of life keep peace, with a big ass bottle of Xanax..
With all it's shame, drudgery and broken dreams, it is still a beautiful world if you happen to be blotto on Thorazine or your not looking at it too damn closely.
Be careful,and strive to be happy since being lackadaisical and striving to be miserable is just plain stupid!

The Gallows Ape

Desiderwhata???