Short Rocket Scientist Poems

came back from the stars
to find a golden ring
left abandoned on his desk -
today even the
rocket scientist is stumped...

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Money alone won’t make you happy, you have to own it
Don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out I'll admit
Well at least grade two
To stay ahead of the queue
Presidents don't even need to know how to knit...

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Money alone won’t make you happy, you must own it
Don't need to be a rocket scientist to figure that one out I'll admit
Well at least grade two
To stay ahead of the queue
Some Presidents don't even need to know how to knit...

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graduated cum laude 
with a PhD in madness,
practitioner of your
  own philosophy as
    the harbinger of doom,
tales of darkness where
the deck is always stacked,
what's the sense of light
   to an austere night
or spring's flourish 
   mid winter's brashness,
you don't need to be
      a rocket scientist 
    to diagnose absurdity...

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The rocket scientist looked in dismay as the rocket lay in a smolderin' heap!

'Twas fired t'ward Mars but was not to be - 'twas enow' to make a man weep!

As he skulked back to his office to figger out what went wrong,

A thought rattled thro' his skull settin' off a clangin' gong!

"The consarned thing is like some guv'mint workers I know!" he uttered!

"They won't work and you can't fire 'em!" under his breath he muttered!

Robert L. Hinshaw, CMSgt, USAF, Retired
(c) All Rights Reserved...

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