Schrodinger’s Vacuums
I have two vacuum cleaners
One’s working collecting dust
The other one isn’t working
And also collecting dust
Seasoning
Winter’s climbing
Into bed
Spring is lifting
Up its head
Darkness disappearing then
Light’s triumphant once again
Another Rainy Day
Consider a lovely sunbeam
Bright and full of zing
Traveling the universe
Lighting everything
Bendable by gravity
Warm upon the face
Navigating heavens
All through outer space
A journey of many countless miles
Unimpeded from the sun
Until it bounces off the clouds
Over Oregon
Fashion
Fashion is something
That shows you this year
What will be unfashionable
Next year
Hard Lesson
The driveway gave me
Some gestault
When I skinned a knee
My dumb asphalt
Sonnet for my Plumber
Bubble, bubble toilet trouble
Fix this problem on the double
Plugged up draining. Will not flush
What’s remaining’s gonna gush
Nowhere for the stuff to go
When there’s stoppage far below
Situation most alarmin’
Due to overusing Charmin
Forming one big massive plug
Hardened in the plumbing snug
Bubble, bubble toilet trouble
Fix this problem on the double
The mess inside this bowl awaits
The plumber’s steepest hourly rates
Twisted Logic
I don’t want to
Start a feud
But pretzels really
Are knot food
Anti-Poetry
I tried to write this as an anti-poem
Something poets would pretty much consider a crime
Its meter – terrible
I screwed up, though – It contains a rhyme
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University Professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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