Jeff Jacob Lourie

This, and many other mishaps, is why you don't hear from me too often. I would like some answers, or at least some commiseration.

If this doesn't work, try Facebook.

Also, I don't get notiifcation for most of the questions posted by my contacts.

I seem to be getting notice of my contacts' questions days after they were first posted. What can be done about this? Has anyone else had this problem?

Roses are red

Violence is blue

This makes no sense to me

And it shouldn't to you

Either.

Water drips quickly

From the cold metal faucet

But the dam holds fast.

Sin (short for syntax, of course) presented this new (to me) form, the Havisham Rhyme, it's a sestet, with a rhyming pattern of ABABAB. The novelty is that the first letter of each succeeding line begin with the last letter of the preceding line.

A middle-aged Anglican vicar,

Whose midriff had gotten much thicker,

Said to his parish,

My form is quite squarish,

I'm switching from lager to liquor.

If so, under what general heading?

C'mon guys, he's gonna be the Prez in a couple of weeks!

I was going to submit these in Japanese, but they lose something in translation.

Big clap of thunder

Sets off all the car alarms.

When they stop, I clap.

Grizzlies walk on road

Tourists click their cameras

Bears don't stop to pose.

Each morning when I wake up I search for all predictions.

Following election polls is the mother of all addictions.

One day he's up, the other down, yet no one can explain

How anyone who's lost a job can vote for John McCain.

I cannot write, I cannot read, it's captured all attention

Sanity's gone, hope lingers on, it's not just my invention

In five more weeks

the nation speaks,

Until then I'm a wreck.

Be patient friend

This soon will end

And like Arnold, "I'll be back."

When I try to reply or compose on Yahoo mail, nine little boxes appear and I can't enter anything. What to do ?

Two hemispheres of thought create..... All is right with the world

Nothing is left to debate.................God's plan is slowly unfurled

Place Logic over Feeling.......It is faith that brings us healing.

My first attempt. Please be savagely honest, so that I don't do another one.

An Ocean Trigee ....or..... Sail on or Ceylon, It's Not My Cup of Tea.

O shun the trigee......................Beware of the allure

Avoid the rocky reef..................That beckons you forward

Eschew this insane form.............You will likely be skewered.

It seems that the serious deterioration of Yahoo's technology has been reversed somewhat. Am I mistaken? Have there been any new improvements added on?

Not many eyes widen

When Barack picks Biden.

I was thinking Obama

Would give us more drama.

Now do you think that McCain

Will better entertain?

Of all you out there, how many

Think he'll pick Romney?

They're all of them human

No one's Harry Truman

And we shall not be bored

There is no Gerald Ford

But not one of them is zany

Like sharpshooter Cheney.

ISHMAEL'S LAMENT

Ahab lost the Pequod

the blame was purely his'n.

He never should set out to sea.

he saw the mast was mizzen.

SUMMERTIME, AND THE LIVIN' IS QUEASY

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After the strain of pandiculation.

It's time for some lazy humicubation

OFFICIOUS NOTICE.

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The Board of Directors of the Poetry Section, Division of Bombast and Obfuscation, has given Mr. Lourie the coveted Beans and Cabbage Award for being so full of gas.

Strong clap of thunder

Automobiles honk their horns

Rain makes them silent