The best way to define a limerick is by composing a limerick, right?
In the enduring schism between “Dog People” and “Cat Pe… (since hardly anyone can be both, and people who get along without p… are not really at issue here)
A Friday morning brings forth my… For all of the good things in life So when that song plays on the rad… To remind me of music’s soothing c… I sing right along, secure in the…
Round metallic plates of various s… 10 pounds, 25 pounds, and the ferocious 45 pounder— sit patiently upon their perch, awaiting their next human encounte…
Assholes in traffic A Chicago fact of life They need to drive, too
Beto O’Rourke towers and Greg Abbott cowers as gun violence devours another 21 lives The gun lobby’s money
Our earth is now more dry and warm Than we’ve ever seen before. And climate trends suggest that We’ll see this even more. As the planet dries, to great exte…
I used to hate poetry back in high school because I could never understand any of it and I didn’t want my teachers
Thanks, Bob, for making us laugh In your calm and cerebral fashion. Other performers would shout and c… But you had a different way to cas… Comedy albums are a thing of the p…
From the early 1980s when he won the NCAA tournament with a jump shot to NBA championships an Olympic gold medal
Faith in this nation And the way we order ourselves By holding fair elections And then accepting their results Is the necessary element
What 18 year-old, still only a kid himself, walks into an elementary school and starts firing? Columbine, Sandy Hook,
It’s Monday morning and I’m at my job. The workday awaits You got this one, Rob.
There is a great Czar of the Snow Alongside a Lady of Glencoe They share poems and verse Whether lengthy or terse Over Zoom is their method of flow…
With floodwaters up to her waist A woman in Florida scrolls through her smartphone. Those devices really have taken over our lives,
Snowflakes ricochet From the windshield of my car; Chicago in Spring
