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Is
a Sperm Like a Whale?
by William Shakespeare
Shall I compare thee to a sperm whale, sperm?
Thou art more tiny and more resolute:
Rough tides may sway a sea-bound endotherm,
But naught diverts thy uterine commute.
Sometime too fierce the eye of squid may glint
And make a stout cetacean hunter quail;
Methinks 'twould take much more than bilious squint
To shake thee off the cunning ovum's trail.
Yet still thou art not so unlike, thou two,
Both coursing through a dark uncharted brine
While fore and aft there swims thy fellow crew;
And note this echo, little gamete mine:
As whales spray salty water from their spout,
So with a salty spray dost thou come out.
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Halt,
Dynamos
by Dylan Thomas
Do not work harder than required to work,
Young men should sit around and drink all day;
Laze, laze, ignore the pressure not to shirk.
Though poor men may
apply to be a clerk,
Because their jobs are not exciting they
Do not work harder than required to work.
Rich men, who sell and
buy, eat at Le Cirque,
And take their "business trips" to Saint-Tropez,
Laze, laze, ignore the pressure not to shirk.
Old men around retirement
age who lurk
At desks and hope no tasks will come their way
Do not work harder than required to work.
Smart men, in school,
who learn with blinding smirk
That coasting through a class still earns an A,
Laze, laze, ignore the pressure not to shirk.
Don't visit every world
like Captain Kirk;
Picard knows that the bridge is where to stay.
Do not work harder than required to work.
Laze, laze, ignore the pressure not to shirk.
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DH
by H.D.
DH, rend open the ball,
rip apart the seams,
bash it to pieces.
Pitchers can't hit
in the AL—
you are better than the pitcher
that chokes up and bunts
and runs pell-mell
yet rounds no base.
Hit the ball—
plough through it,
cleave it with the Ginsu knife
of your bat.
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