A Poem About Lazlo Zalezac’s Facts of Life
by ffwd
Copyright© 2025 by ffwd
Thriller Story: Into every life a bit of truth may fall. The truths of life fell into mine. This is my homage to the creed called the 'Facts of Life' that Lazlo Zalezac invented for his novel, 'The Millionaire Next Door'. I recommend the story as one of Zalezac's best.
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Life is not fair because
The universe does not care.
No one is exempt from death
Since physics rules the universe
While biology rules life.
The physics of life are tenuous, brief and final;
But, still, there is almost immortality in my chain of children
And in any of my goals that my family remembers.
The only constant in life is change.
But there is always a choice.
Yet, wishing never makes it so.
A person can’t exceed their limits
Except a person is responsible for their own happiness
And happiness knows no limit.
Still, sadly and grandly,
It is impossible to change the character of another.
Hell, I’ve taken a lifetime to change my own.
“Boastfully/boringly, I confess that these are not my Facts of Life. Poem’s italicized words are, verbatim, the Facts of Life listed in Lazlo Zalezac’s novel The Millionaire Next Door, which is currently posted on finestories.com and IMHO one of his best. Well, verbatim implies that I’d’ve kept his sequence, structure and punctuation: the enemies/essence of every poem.” -ffwd © 2025 vannovation LLC.
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