The Poems, all three hundred of them, may be summed up in one of their phrases:
"Let our thoughts be correct".
-- Confucius
"Hello, Neo. You're right on time.... Make yourself at home, Morpheus. Neo,
come with me.... These are the other potentials, you can wait here."

-- Priestess, "The Matrix"
Rip Van Winkle
Said he'd rather
Snooze for years
Than shave
With lather
Burma-Shave (1937)
Bridge prize
For men
Just half a buck
Try it, hostess
Change your luck
Burma-Shave (1933)
SELF-EVIDENT, adj. Evident to one's self and to nobody else.