Around us see May flowers, all in bloom
Let's gleefully start to shed Pandemic gloom
There's much less need to give each other lots and lots of room
Because no longer must we meet - if at all - on Zoom
Party times resuming now at stadia, beach and bars
While JPL's ingenious new 'AIRcraft' flies on Mars
While busy hands delineate panel lines and ailerons
Our minds note that May birthdays include cultural icons
Fred Astaire and Martha Graham still show us high-class dance
Mary Cassat and Katherine Hepburn represent romance
To writers, Margaret Fuller and Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Inspire our own compositional toil
All wonder how far we'd go if we only really tried
To venture smart and curious, like NASA's Sally Ride
Closer to home, more immediately
This May includes two birthdays, each of 70
Unnoticed by Historians...that may be
but they're for Kenneth Murphy, and for me.
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