From Bad to Verse: Error Prone, Poet Prose, The Truth Hurts

Error Prone 

My friend’s a typochondriac
That’s bad, for goodness sake
Because it means that she’s afraid
Of making a mistake 

Poet Prose 

I went to visit my poet friend
My writing skills to hone
And she told me to sit right down
And make myself a tome 

Limerick
The atheist’s latest sensation
Caused a stir in the God fearing nation
How dare he create
Inside of their state
A non-prophet organization 

The Truth Hurts 

I was having a serious talk today
But I’m afraid I had to stop it
Because it is so difficult
Telling highways they’re adopted 

Vaccwm 

‘Vacuum’ is a word most strange 

Whose spelling I would rearrange 

It only has one ‘c’, not two 

Followed by a double ‘u’ 

People with greater acumen 

Unlike the real dumb clucks 

Spell it ‘v-a-c-w-m’ 

So the spelling, like the word, sucks 

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