I. [“Deer Money”]
A conversation quickly makes it clear
That venison’s the meat that’s held most dear.
All people seem to talk about or know
Is how to hunt some bucks or get some doe.
II. [“An Ineffective M.O.”]
To kill with kindness murderers once tried
But found intended victims rarely died.
https://paulwhitberg.wordpress.com/2014/05/17/immortal-wisdom-in-deathless-verse-epigrams-1/
III. [“Epigram on an Anagram”]
A “poem” might become a mixed up “mope”
Composed by some absurdly gloomy dope.
https://paulwhitberg.wordpress.com/2014/05/23/poem-an-epigram-on-an-anagram-by-paul-burgess/
IV. [When will you write a serious poem?”: an Epigrammatic Reply]
If writing serious and earnest rhymes,
I might be jailed for literary crimes.
V. [“Praying Mantis Mating”]
A praying mantis says, “The sex was great!”
The womantis nods before she grabs her plate.
https://paulwhitberg.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/praying-mantis-mating-by-paul-burgess/
VI. [“A Teacher’s Epitaph”]
They will appreciate me when I pass.
I know they’ll say, “He had a lot of class.”
VII. [“The Unconscious Liar”]
Don’t trust a snoring man who’s closed his eyes
Because it’s said of him, “Asleep he lies.”
https://paulwhitberg.wordpress.com/2014/05/24/the-unconscious-liar-an-epigram-by-paul-burgess/
VIII. [“Carpe Diem!”]
Some never feel alive, it’s often said,
Except when doing what might make them dead.
IV. [“Hobbes]
When influential monarchist Thomas Hobbes
Suggests that men in nature are like brutes,
The modern readers say, between their sobs,
“I guess some haven’t left behind their roots.”
https://paulwhitberg.wordpress.com/2014/05/25/thomas-hobbes/
X. [“Freud”]
The most insightful book by Sigmund Freud
Says less of mother-loving we’d avoid.
In Civ’lization and its Discontents,
There’s less of Oedipus and more of sense.
https://paulwhitberg.wordpress.com/2014/06/02/civilization-and-its-discontents/
Miscellaneous Inanities 