*image by Ben Harubin

The so-called "Education of Man" is a
paving over of an imaginary carpet
with illusionary cement.

Looking over the equipment a man thought,
"Is it possible to have something
and not know how to properly use it?"
"Not in this lifetime," replied the equipment. And just to prove its point,
forced the man to properly use it even though he was never aware he was doing so.
...(If this does not immediately make sense to you, try taking some
self-produced drug, lay down for awhile, and see what develops.)

From our loose-leaf dictionary, yet another take on the word "Enlightenment":
Enlightenment: The thing that can point to everything, but nothing can point to it.

...(Which reminds you to wonder what need has a hand or location for a
description of a finger, what?)

A poem for the new year:

Mirror, mirror on my wall,
what holds you up? -- why don't you fall?
"No one's ever asked me, but
if you want to know,
reflections of reflections
have nowhere to go."

A young man in search of himself seems a pleasant sight, an old man, a pathetic one.
If timing's not everything -- there is no "everything."

A father poked his finger in his son's chest and so informed him,
"There are two reasons that you can't see-things-as-they-are: first is because you can't do otherwise, and second is that there is no you there inside of you to do so."