[Jan Pengelly]

The man from Delmonti
so often says "no",
protecting our tastebuds
to great lengths he'll go;
but I prefer fresh fruit
not stuff out a can,
I'd dress him with fresh cream
and eat up that man.

[Alexander Grace]

You can bet man Delmonti
has a plan to seize
for himself, every drop
of freshly squeezed




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[Nicole Bond]

Let’s cut to the chase,
This board’s not too slow,
For I know all these here people
Have nowhere to go.

But I was just wonderin,’
Do you have something to show?
Cause I’m a poor student,
And I need some dough.

So I’ll take some donations
From any of you patrons
To a fund labeled ‘College’
‘Cause that’s where I go.

[Larry Powers]

I speak as one who's still uneducated
because he was unwilling, during youth,
to work his ass off. Though I seem frustrated,
what I'm about to say is just the truth.

The men and women I admire most
are those who worked and earned their way through college,
enduring hardships. They can rightly boast
that nothing stopped them, in their quest for knowledge.

The folks who built this nation earned their money
by putting forth some effort. So don’t ask
for hand-outs. I am sure it must sound funny,
but building character's a worth-while task.

[Nicole Bond]

Worthwhile?
To sit and listen to the badgering professors
And to acknowledge their thoughts with a smile?

Worthwhile?
To fight in the lines just to find a class
But when I reach the end they don’t have my file.

Worthwhile,
Is banging my head against the cheap plaster
Of my overpriced apartment and its moldy tile.

Worthwhile-
At printing out papers and highlighting passages
Burning my braincells for mile after mile.

Worthwhile
Character sure is entirely too much work.
In fact, I think this character thing is just going out of style.

[Lightning Bug]

Nicole,

I shudder at what all these "-ile" rhymes foretell -
you're making a file for a new villanelle.

- Bugsy

[Jerry Glenn Hartwig]

Hippity-hoppity
Zita my Z-baby;
where have you gone to?
Where's your reply?

Dragging me into this
verse-conversational!
Failing to answer - six
weeks have gone by!

[Nicole Bond]

Bugsy,

Villanelle?
Hell!
Dr. Peich asked me to write one four days ago,
But thus far I haven’t had much to show.
However, you’ve given me a clue,
I can try again thanks to you!

-Nicole

PS-
Verse isn’t my calling,
More like my down-falling.

[Jan Pengelly]

Nicole, don't fall over yourself for a rhyme,
just hum it and play it and it'll be fine.
for teachers we try hard, we rack our poor brains
but teachers are people, just paid for our gains;
so why not surprise him with muffins instead?
'a sweet for a sweetie, dear sir' he'll go red!

[Zita Zenda]

Oh Jerry, my darling,
I thank you for this!
I seriously thought
that I was not missed…

To see that you’ve counted
the weeks that have passed;
I came straight to this -
what I’ve missed - at long last.

P.S.

I suppose I should have
some stories to share
for where I have gone…
but I’m not quite there.

P.S.S.

Hello, to all!

Apologies for not knowing the proper dashes