High Seas Education
There once was a young lad from Sattahip.
A deckhand aboard merchants on many a trip.
He dreamed of a world-class education.
Far-fetched for a swabbie’s renumeration.
If only he could serve aboard a scholar-ship.
A Lake by Any Other Name
In this society full of unequal disparity.
Let us debate a point for ambiguous clarity.
If there’s a Lake Michigan, among the Great,
Shouldn’t there be a Lake Michigan State?
Let us debate it with disparate complimentary.
The Ethereal Scupper 