[R. S. Gwynn]

I do prefer the alternate, Rajah!

[Gail White]

Roger and I had much the same idea:

Coming in two-thousand-ten:
Peace on Earth, good will to men!
The Irish finally will see
the sense of being C of E.
The Scots will give the sacred Stone
its rightful place beneath the throne.
Barack will wave his Nobel Prize
and cause to dematerialize
three-quarters of the Middle East,
while Kim Jong Il (the current Beast)
along with leaders of Iran
will vow a nuclear weapons ban.
As climax of this upward trend,
on July fifth the world will end
just prior to Bin Laden's capture.
Grasp the first fine careless Rapture!

[Roger Slater]

2010 PREDICTIONS

Each morning throughout twenty-ten
the light will break at dawn,
and not a minute sooner.
By night it will be gone.

January will be cold.
So will February.
March will start out cold, as well,
but by the end, not very.

April, everything will thaw.
The heat will build in May.
When June is three weeks old, hear this:
we'll have our longest day.

And then the days will shrink in size
until ten days before
New Year's Eve, when we will cheer
it's twenty-ten no more.