The Oh-So-Prolific-One: Leon Freilich/Verse Responder

       SOME THINGS NEVER

I took a pioneering trip

To Mercury on a rocket ship;

The sights were new but not the pattern–

My luggage spent the week on Saturn.

          BOTTLE BATTLE

In the world’s poorer
countries

It’s water you need to fear

While in the prosperous sections

It’s best to avoid the air.