A Celebration of Grooks

Once again, here's to short poetry! (For more on author Piet Hein and Grooks, see "Poetry to Live by" posted July 22.)

THE EGOCENTRICS

People are self-centered
to a nauseous degree.
They will keep on about themselves
while I'm explaining me.

VITA BREVIS

A lifetime
is more
than
sufficiently long
for people to get what there is of it
wrong.

BUDGETING: THE FIRST LAW

If you want to know
where your money went,
you must spend it quickly
before it's spent.

ARS BREVIS

There is
one art,
no more,
no less:
to do
all things
with art-
lessness.