She believes in doing things right
She would do anything for anyone i
it helped a person be closer to he
She would never eat a lamb chop wi
just as pork hocks must accompany

Sports News from Mudville
(Thanks to “Casey at the Bat”)
The outlook’s great for all you fo
Linebacker Doakes was just picked
Then football’s finest running bac

I will not wear shorts, wing-tip s
I will continue to be grateful tha
I will not listen to any salesman
I will quit telling people how I
I will not say, “I don’t know wha

Leda Lays an Egg
One morning Leda, sitting on the
Saw Zeus appear transmogrified to
She heard too late the honks and w
And so with godly force he conquer

,The Honky-Poet Blues
(With apologies to Bessie Smith)
I’m sittin’ at my keyboard almos’
I say, I’m sittin’ at my keyboard
The wife want rent money,

They all seem old,
with huge, bushy beards,
their soiled rags incongruous
in the sleek, polished chairs.
Not allowed bundles

Higher Powers
From birth to death some others mu
You see, as infant, round-faced, g
Above the crib, to serve you, need
Precluded by efficacy of sobs.

A big brown dog,
gray around the muzzle,
lay in the front yard of an old h
between his front paws a tennis ba
As we walked by,

At breakfast
my microwave appears to heat,
electrons clearly humming;
container, though, remaining cold,
oatmeal cooling rapidly.

The Seven Virtues
Six centuries ago a pope devised
A list of sins he thought should b
But now we see the list must be re
For calling virtues sins will neve