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How to Suffer, a Handbook


[cover page]

Simple & Easy Directions to Home-Made Suffering!  Never
Formulate Melodramtic or Ineffectual Suffering Again!

    [picture of a smiling, grinning devil's face]


[instructions, pg.1]

1. Do Not Smile
2. Do Not Become Happy
3. Lose a Loved One, or Two
4. Disconnect Your Phone
5. Disconnect Your TV, Stereo, VCR, Microwave, and Refrigerator
6. Make Your Pets Into Dinner
7. Move to Houston and Do Not Buy an Airconditioner
8. Rub Bubble Gum in Your Hair
9. Set Fire to Your Armpits, Only
10. Fuck a Friend, or Two
11. Eat Your Furniture

[pg.2]

12. Forget Your Rent
13. Lose Your Job
14. Do Not Pay Your Insurance
15. Rear-end Another Car
16. Do Not Use Sunscreen on the Beach for Ten Hours
17. If You are Vegetarian, Eat Hamburgers
18. If You are Environmental, Drink from Paper Cups
19. If You are Not Politically Correct, Say "[X]-Challenged" Often
20. Living on the Southside of a West-East Menlo Park/East
      Palo Alto Street, Turn Right
21. Attack a Rabid Dog
22. Break All of Your Bones
23. Near a Ghetto, Wear the Wrong Colors
24. Relocate to Somalia
25. Fuck Your Father
26. Fuck Your Mother

[pg.3]

Key Ingredient:

Tell the World to Fuck Off so You Can Be All Alone and Suffer

    [picture of a slumped figure]

(c) Lies, Inc.



-- Jennifer Crystal Fang-Chien