Baseless Humor
When I told my DNA joke
Everyone scoffed
Probably because
My thymine was off
Quorum Sense
I think that it
Is worth repeating
When bacteria Zoom
It’s for a Staph meeting
Sounds Off
When I lost my audiobook
My spouse had a fit
Now I will never
Hear the end of it
Limerick
Of Cheerios I must complain
I do not like their new campaign
It seems they are cheating
By saying we’re eating
A food that is made from hole grain
Oxymoronica
An oxymoron is, of course
Contradictory at its source
So please join me, considering these
Linguistic atrocities
It’s time to make up your mind
It really would be prudent
To be one or the other
Instead of a GRADUATE STUDENT
You should try to avoid
The ultimate futility
Anytime someone refers to
A DEFINITE POSSIBILITY
And it’s reasonable to wonder
What to do
When anybody says
“ACT NATURALLY” to you
You may not know
Whether to laugh or cry, honey
If a movie gets described as
As “SERIOUSLY FUNNY”
Or it may be called
Rather commonly
Something described as a
TRAGIC COMEDY
If price is a consideration
You’re sure to wonder what
Anytime you receive
An EXACT ESTIMATE
Then there’s a bit of logic
You must bypass
Anytime someone talks
About LIQUID GAS
Please be careful
Don’t laugh out loud
Should you hear reference to
A SMALL CROWD
And it’s completely ridiculous
So go and make noise
If a person says they are giving you
Your ONLY CHOICE
Remember to give yourself
Just a little while
In order to understand
NEO-CLASSIC Style
And last, but not least
The worst of this mess
Is what some describe as an
ACT OF CONGRESS
And In the End
Either I will die
Or my friends will first
Then all our atoms
Will get dispersed
And that is what
It means, my mate
When they refer to
Atomic wait
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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