<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div dir="auto" style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class=""><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Philosophy </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><br class=""></div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">You slip </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">into life</div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">programmed </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">to breath, </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">excrete. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Ticket punched </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">ere arrival. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Nigh on to </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">14,000,000 </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Homo sapiens </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">have trod this </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">space. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">How many </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">can you </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">name? </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Who </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">will name </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">you? </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">First, you’re young; then you’re old. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">First, you live; then you die. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Try not to hurt too many people along the way. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Put back more than you take. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">You control some of it. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Greed produces </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Prunes and ghouls. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Anxiety makes wrinkles and fools. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Eight out of ten </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">commandments </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">not bad. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Power goes sour. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Your children will likely </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Throw away all that shit you collected. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class="">Or someone else will. </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""> </div><div style="caret-color: rgb(51, 51, 51); color: rgb(51, 51, 51);" class=""><span class="Apple-tab-span" style="white-space: pre;"> </span>- Ernie Carpenter</div></div></body></html>