Undersized
A baby fish
In water swirled
Not ready yet
For the reel world
Getting Soaked
The scuba diver
To water marches
Paying expensive
Depth charges
Limerick (Untitled)
At the board, holding pieces of chalk
Trigonometry teachers do flock
And incur student wrath
Speaking only in math
Cuz it’s in sine language they talk
Owed English
The English student’s nap in class
Made his instructor crosser
When the teacher threw the book at him
He saw a flying Chaucer
Uphill Battle
I was fighting an uphill battle
But after a while, I stopped
Cuz I realized that if I won
I would be on top
Which sounded great, I must admit
But this I have to share
Once you get up to the top
Everything goes downhill from there
Dirty Joke
When Maggie Thatcher slipped in mud
The headline writers roiled
For earning herself the status as
“The Greatest Tory Ever Soiled”
Kiss of Life
OK, here’s the latest
On the insect situation
After it hit the porch light
It got moth to moth resuscitation
Breath of Life
My wine bottle wasn’t breathing
Its health had sure gone south
Fortunately I was present
To give it mouth to mouth
Double Meaning
Snow dropping from the sky
Cursed by travelers driving by
Snow so beautiful that I see
Snow big deal to me
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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