UNEXPECTED DIRECTIONS

Obama’s barging toward the center,

McCain is lurching to the right.

So tell me, please, political mentor,

Who’s the more presidential fright?

RAKE’S ACHES

Yesterday’s stud

Good in bed

Today’s dud

Good as dead.

DOUBLE TAKE

“On sale” gets my attention

Like nothing even resembling

But interest starts in flagging

On seeing “Needs assembling.”

HOPPING ON THE BANDWAGON

The stylish Piloti Prototipo Driving Shoes make driving less taxing. $85.
–Product review in AAA Car & Travel, July 2008

Do something for your feet,

Avoid toesy gruel

By buying these nifty shoes.

($5 surcharge for fuel.)

HALF-THOUGHT IN A HALF-EMPTY STARBUCKS

Expand too much

And you’re hardly the first

To see your balloon

Stretch and burst.

POOR RICHARD’S REVISION

Early to bed

And early to rise

Insures you’ll never

Be one of the guys.