Pensive Pauses is the fourth volume of Joseph Mileck's poems and epigrams. It encompasses culture, religion, philosophy, psychology, politics, and personal recollections, and offers its readers a feast of wisdom, wit, beauty, and biting social commentary. The some 3000 epigrams and some 85 poems of Pensive Pauses are both attractive and thought-provoking, and both timely and timeless.