Space Case
My spacebar’sworking randomly
Itmakesmewant toshout
Cuzwordsare easiertoread
All s p a c e d out
Center of Gravity
When riding on a boat
The air is fresh and breezy
But as one’s balance shifts around
The stomach gets most q u e a s y
Worry Free
No matter the outcome
No matter your role
What happens in black holes
Stays in black holes
Spackling
Spackle squeezed into a hole
Fills up space. That’s its role
If the wall’s destroyed by rain
It will be what remains
To Be a Hole
A hole’s a place
Where people find
The empty space
They left behind
And if they fill it
With their stuff
The space that’s left
Won’t be enough
To be a hole
Arguments
Despite the knowledge
We’ve amassed
People disagree on the future
And also the past
Fighting, arguing
Such nonsense
And this is why
The present’s tense
Kevin Ahern is an Oregon State University professor Emeritus of Biochemistry and Biophysics. In his retirement, he writes verses.
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