Dear Rosalie and Irv

                                    QUESTION ANSWERED??

            What dandelion heads remain
            Are bowed,
            Because the Kays have left.

            So loud
            The weeping of bereft
            But open flowers!

            Why do they close at night?
            Not just from sorrow,

            But because tomorrow and tomorrow
            They must obey
            Commands genetic that clearly say
            Activate proteins 210 and 180 kDa*

protein 210 kDa

            

            To plump the pulvini up
            With turgidity high
            And implement nyctinasty.
            By the dawn's early light
            Circadian rhythm is invoked
            And petals spread when wings take flight
            To gather pollens.

            So, from their southern clime,
            The Kays send thanks to Winesuffs
            Along with a botanical rhyme.

            The Answer?
             Nyctinasty happens!
 

Nyctinasty Happens

 
            * Underlined phrases may be accessed on the Web.

July 23, 2012

Better to rhyme than to whine!

                        CONVENTIONAL LIMERICKS

         

Democratic

Joe’s loyal-- times one and a half.

His speech does him proud (plus his staff).

            He toes party line,

            Does exceedingly fine.

And he does it without any gaffe.

Barack shows us a better path

With the biblical phrase that he hath.

            Middle class to the fore!

            Let the rich give some more.

Like Clinton we’ll just do the math.  

    

Republican

Clint Eastwood’s an elderly actor,

Whom “The Right” thought a positive factor,

            But he cursed to a chair—

            He was so “not-quite-there”--

That he ruined their set like a tractor.

Paul Ryan is handsome: with youth,

Slick black hair and a smile full of tooth;

            But he plays with the facts

            Of who’ll raise the tax.

“Undecideds” will ask “where’s the truth?”

Sept. 7, 2012