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“If the sky falls they shall have clouds for supper.”
― Charles Simic, The World Doesn't End: Prose Poems

“The problem with being nuts, she thought, is that you don't always feel as if you're nuts. Sometimes, in fact, you feel perfectly sane, and there just happens to be a trailer-shaped dragon crouching in the lot next door.”
― Christopher Moore

“Vade Mecum

I want the scissors to be sharp
and the table perfectly level
when you cut me out of my life
and paste me in that book you always carry.”
― Billy Collins, Sailing Alone Around the Room: New and Selected Poems

“Beth from accounting
is just sitting in her car
eating spaghetti.”
― Ryan Mecum, Zombie Haiku: Good Poetry for Your...Brains