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PROVERBS:
In time tractors will speak.
Fish invented the one night stand.
Volcanoes are safe most days.
Tusks fall forward.
Nowhere is pastry illegal.
Anything can be giftwrapped.

ROBERT W. HOWINGTON THE PAINTER TAKES A WALK
from I Don't Know You and That's Fine With Me
A lot of people say Hell is a
burning inferno with a mean guy in a red suit poking at you with a pitch fork.
But I know what Hell really is: steady employment.
I walk parallel to the Moon
Stop and look, then walk a little further,
Stop and look again and again.
Then at last through trial and error,
I halt and turn, "There it is."
Now my composition is perfect -
The Moon, the trees, the houses, the field.
There I sit till I'm full of joy.

I FLIP A COIN I HIT HIM
I flip a coin
And it rolls away.
The issue's clouded,
The future vague.
I hit him
With a bowling pin
Instant
Enlightenment!

Koan Comics

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ROBERT W. HOWINGTON	THE PAINTER TAKES A WALK
from I Don't Know You and That's Fine With Me A lot of people say Hell is a burning inferno with a mean guy in a red suit poking at you with a pitch fork. But I know what Hell really is: steady employment.	I walk parallel to the Moon Stop and look, then walk a little further, Stop and look again and again. Then at last through trial and error, I halt and turn, "There it is." Now my composition is perfect - The Moon, the trees, the houses, the field. There I sit till I'm full of joy.

I FLIP A COIN	I HIT HIM
I flip a coin And it rolls away. The issue's clouded, The future vague.	I hit him With a bowling pin Instant Enlightenment!