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On Equality
© Sukasah Syahdan
Always remember that when we say
that all men are created equal
we are only joking.
On Corruption
© Sukasah Syahdan
Show me the cause of the citys traffic jam,
and I'll show you the root of corruption.
Show me a Jag-driving Indonesian,
and Ill show you a crook.
On God and the Moon
© Sukasah Syahdan
Before we ask if God exists
we should ask if man really
landed on the moon.
On Archaeologists and Historians
© Sukasah Syahdan
Archaeologist and historians
should work together to reveal
what happened to Gajah Mada,
or Humpty Dumpty.
On Truths
© Sukasah Syahdan
Truths are stranger than fictions,
and there are more of the former
than the latter.
On Handphones
© Sukasah Syahdan
Shouting alone on the streets
used to be free, until they
invented handphones.
On Nothing's New
© Sukasah Syahdan
Those who say nothing's new
under the olden sun have never laid eyes
on my wart.
On Thinking Faculty
© Sukasah Syahdan
One sorriest thing in life is our capacity
with which we think that we think.
Some do it with brains, some with hearts,
some stomachs, and some genitals.
On A Fowler, By Isidorus
© William Cowper
With seeds and birdlime, from the desert air,
Eumelus gather'd free, though scanty fare.
On A Portrait
© Paul Hamilton Hayne
A widower muses over the likeness of his dead wife.
THE face, the beautiful face,
In its living flush and glow,
The perfect face in its peerless grace
Of The Nature Of Things: Book I - Part 06 - Confutation Of Other Philosophers
© Lucretius
And on such grounds it is that those who held
The stuff of things is fire, and out of fire
On The High Price Of Fish
© William Cowper
Cocoa-nut naught,
Fish too dear,
None must be bought,
For us that are here:
