Mooch-O Talent
by Erica Stux

Our student son was undecided

What he wants to do.

Is it business, art, or science

that he should pursue.

But the letter he wrote home

with most persuasive phrasing

led me to believe his field's

professional fund-raising.

Like Fred Astaire
by Patricia Smekel

Your wit moves light
on it's feet. It dances
in patent-leather shoes,
sweeps up my mood,
puts a shine on gloom.

You bend me to your humour,
dip and sway me into step,
tap me happy, turn me out
in top hat and tails.