Identity Crisis
Scientists say
It’s best for you
To think of clones
As people two
Getting Duped
My friend was confused
What cloning was
So to her I said
“That makes two of us”
No Bull
In the livestock business
This is the word
Cows stick together
To be herd
Neopolitans
Portland residents are wetropolitans
Las Vegas residents are betropolitans
Tucson residents are sweatropolitans
Babylonian residents were tabletropolitans
Nostalgics are retropolitans
College students are debtropolitans
Consumers are getropolitans
Web users are netropolitans
Bombers are nitropolitans
Texans are petropolitans
Animal doctors are vetropolitans
Life
Youth dies early
Aging lives on
Until the big stop sign
Says you can’t go on
Limited Lease
Upon the Earth, your time’s not owned
You only get to rent it
And when the lease is up, my friend
No way you can extend it
We’ve Got Plenty
Better times than this
We truly deserve
It’s time to stop tapping
Our Strategic Stupidity Reserve
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses. 
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