ASK

Ask your folks and grandfolks ere they're gone.
Better still, ask before their memory's gone.
Interview, record the facts
About their lifetime acts.
To your grandkids, pass these on.

NORTH KOREA

North Korea, a nuclear power,
Has destroyed its cooling tower
To show that it means business
About quitting the plutonium business.
That's in the good news of the hour.

1776

This thought intrigues me some.
The time to break had come.
One thing we needed then
Was a skillful man with pen.
'Twas a good thing we had Tom.

PRAIRIE GRASSES

About summer grass for cows that moo:
While dormant are orchard grass and fescue,
There is no grass that surpasses
The summer growth of prairie grasses,
And they've got more protein too.

THE OLYMPIANS

Champions we will be shown.
They will achieve renown.
They've risen through the ranks.
Folks there are whom they owe thanks.
They didn't do it all alone.

97TH REGIMENTAL STRING BAND

They worked up a lather
Doing songs of our forefathers
In three-part harmony.
For me and my honey,
'Twas well worth the bother.

SHAQUILLE O'NEAL

How does it feel
Shaquille O'Neal?
Is it hard to face
Your fall from grace,
A role model with a broken wheel?