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 * A Bad Day at the Lab - Linda Magruder**

Today will live in infamy!

I messed up in the lab you see

I unlocked just one monkey cage

Then had to run and check a gauge

When I returned I was quite shocked

Ten monkey cages were unlocked!

Two monkeys swung from ceiling fans

High-fiving with their feet and hands

Three more had lit up Bunsen burners

They balanced them on pancake turners

One monkey had three feet of hose

and shoved it up another’s nose

The last three chimps were down the hall

And that was the worst thing of all

They'd entered a restricted space

The lab we call the “cloning place”

It didn’t take them very long

To make things go completely wrong

They’d mixed up all the DNA

How many kinds I cannot say

From birds and frogs and caribou

They’d cooked up a genetic stew

A seething glowing bubbling mass

Of kangaroo and wild ass

Who knows what the result will be

I guess we’ll have to wait and see

So here’s a lesson for the ages

Always lock your monkey cages!

For if you give them chance enough,

They’ll monkey with genetic stuff!

 Boldly,
 * Afterglow - Monica E Smith**

he ascended deeper into the indigo sky

ocean swell

before completely vanishing from sight,

only a foam-white afterglow remained

as proof of his being...

**A Matter of Degrees - Frank Koerner**

What exactly is the Greenhouse Effect? What is it going to do? Are we going to have more continents? Or will we lose a few? After studying all the facts, those of a scientific mind Should get to the core of the matter, leave indecision behind. For years they've said conclusively that as the planet warms The people of Chicago will go to the ocean in swarms. It so happens the beach they'll have, the one to call their own Will be the Gulf of Mexico. If so, let us now for sins atone.

But wait! there is a new belief, one not quite so harsh, It says the other theory's wrong, what it postulates is farce. The waters will not rise, for by analogy to water and rice We'll end up with less water than thought, but more, by far, of ice.

This theory has as hypothesis that as the temperatures rise, The atmosphere will hold more water and then it is surmised It will cool over the polar regions, and fall as rain, then freeze, Resulting in more water, for sure, but no flooding, if you please.

You'd think that all these theorists, pontificating such decrees Would cease their foolishness and stop fooling us by degrees. They can't even look at daily facts, to tell us if it will rain, Yet tell us heat will produce more ice. It's "water on the brain!"

What if they're both correct? Then we're worse off than we think. We'll toast Chicago's new shoreline with icebergs in the drink. But I have a sneaking suspicion that neither camp is right, Before we drown this earth'll succumb to some other major plight.

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