Manbird wrote:

I have had to experience

so much stupidity,
so many vices,
so much error,
so much nausea,

disillusionment

and

sorrow,

just in order to become a child again
and
begin anew

I had to experience despair,
I had to sink to the greatest mental depths, to thoughts of suicide,
in order to
experience grace

Hermann Hesse

 kurtster wrote: 
why did leeks in his pail make him pale?
Maybe it's just a pumice leaking thing or something...

Ted and Bill
went up the hill
to fill a pale with pumice

But Ted fell down and broke his crown
so Bill had to thumb it to the summit

When Bill reached the peak
he found a leek in his pale

Pissed off, he proceeded to take a leak
and then jumped the shark and fell into the dark.

 

I'm reading good stuff how about a contest?

 number_junky wrote: 
You make it sound so exciting!

Poet contest let's see what you got.