From Bad to Verse: Apartments, Undertaker, High Cows

Apartments 

When they named the living units 

I don’t know what they spent 

But I have to wonder if they knew 

Exactly what apart meant 

Undertaker 

His hobby’s an odd one 

And most absurd 

Burying innocent ideas 

Under mountains of words 

High Cows 

The cow that jumped over the moon 

Is quite the thing and how 

Because it was the very first 

Evaporated milk cow 

The Cycle of Water 

The world’s made of sand 

If you live on a beach 

And water is something 

That’s always in reach 

But if it should be 

That you live on the plains 

The water you see 

Comes down with the rains 

It flows in the rivers 

Arising from streams 

And fills up the ocean 

Or that’s how it seems 

And from sea to the plains 

It’s easy to see 

Evaporation carries it 

As humidity 

The cycle is fixed 

So please don’t upset it 

If you get too much 

You’ll just have to sweat it 

Incomplete 

My love of writing 

Is undiminished 

Despite a lot of 

Verses unfinished 

Writing Advice 

My advice for aspiring writers 

Is to the point, not vague 

Whatever you do, it’s important to 

Avoid cliches, like the plague 

Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.