MESSY PEOPLE

We throw when the spirit moves us.
Messy people this proves us.
As though it's a requirement,
To mess up the environment,
We feel it behooves us.

JOAN BENOIT SAMUELSON

Among the women, number one,
She did right well at fifty-one.
We're so glad she came to town,
This gold medalist of renown,
Joan Benoit Samuelson.

FIVE WHO RAN THE VA TEN MILER

DAVID HORTON

LU's Doctor David Horton
Ran the race just to be sportin'.
Seventeen trail miles on feet right sore
He and buddies ran the night before!
Or were they moonshine snortin?


DAVID CHEEROMEI

Coach David Cheeromei
Is a Kenyan who can really fly.
Over the course he sped,
Seven minutes of second ahead!
He's another LU guy.


BILL DRAPER

If you know old Bill Draper,
Then you know he'll never taper.
Bill is now eighty-one,
And all thirty-five he's run
According to the paper.


JIM MONTGOMERY

From Florida it's a long drive
For a man almost seventy-five.
In his car this man I admire a lot
Slept in the parking lot!
For him it was number thirty-five.


BILL FASTABEND

We knew we could depend
On our own Bill Fastabend.
Running with an injured calf,
Cheered on by his better half,
He brought his 35th to its end.

BRAVE MASTER

The dog could scarcely bark
In that crisis stark.
No one could dive in faster
Than did that loving master
Who saved it from the shark.

DO LESS; GET HUNGRIER

This news is on the street:
Whether it's potatoes, fish or meat,
The more we sit,
The hungrier we get
And the more we eat.

ALTAVISTA

The twenty-three miles I rather like
To ride to Altavista on my bike,
Then lift weights and ride home to boot.
I went there one-way once on foot,
But that's a lengthy hike.

A SOLUTION EXISTS

Congress will, of course, persist.
Of what does the solution consist?
At the defeat, the market winced,
But Bob Goodlatte is convinced
A solution does exist.