Life is?

Life is but a bowl of cherries,
Rotten to the core and full of pits,
Nothing seems rational, nothing fits,
Condemned while we live,
Ruined when we die,
Why are we born, why should we try
To hustle and bustle, to rush, cheat and lie
And then to wind up as dust and mud pie...

Alfred Charasz
Copyright 2006 Alfred Charasz