Every race and kind
Infinite diversity
Roddenbery’s dream
To boldly go where
no one has gone before them
Kirk and Spock explore
To seek out new life
and new civilizations
yes, to boldly go
For science and peace
or is it just for conquest
What do humans seek?
Would Gene be proud of
humanity and Trekkies
If alive today?
Go out and make a
change in our planet first, then
Roddenbery’s way!
His dad’s a lifelong Trekkie with a line he likes to say
Tod always hoped he’d get to use the line himself one day
On his birthday Lucy met him by the classroom door
She said I’m gonna give you what you’ve been asking me for
Tod said he’d like to boldly go where no man’s gone before
Then all the kids collapsed in laughter on the classroom floor
"Pinball Wizard"
strange sounds hypnotize from an ARCADE
challenging me to a dual escapade
silver balls wait in line
for fingers to opine
female transforms to pinball wizard on parade.
STAR TREK is my machine of choice
listening to CAPTAIN KIRK'S commanding voice
ENTERPRISE flies at warp speed
as numbers calculate point feed
as a TREKKIE I win a la Royce.*
MORTAL COMBAT is a game of great skill
super bonus points mount as empty holes fill
deadly fatalities
video catastrophies
in the end my name is on top of the hill.
STREET FIGHTER is quick, sharp and rough
knocking down opponents is so tough
when the flipper sinks the ball in
the bad dude shouts "a vul kin"*
aggravated, I cry out "had enough".
time to hang up my "wizard fingers" for another day
flashing lights show my name on display
leaving fantasy behind
know I'm "one of a kind"
pinball prima donna loves to play.
*Royce -haracter from older series
*A Vul Kin - foreign language meaning you're dead
*For Yasmin Khan's Video Games Contedt ..
*Sept. 24,2012.
Ode to ALF for Laurie's sake
His furry suit awful and fake
Favorite snacks were feline licks
My knee-slap fix in EightySix
His favorite food? Remember That?
Here's a hint...guard your cat!!
Oh Miss Ginn, Why won't you see?
The best invasion since E.T.
This space muppet show for Trekkie spawn
What if his ship wrecked in your lawn?
You'd coldly turn this ALF away?
A.K.A Gordon Shumway?
Leave him homeless? Where's your manners?!
Thank God he wrecked down at the Tanner's
ALF sadly can never ever go back
To his home in far off Melmack
So here he lives, sippin' space tonic
Dodging the neighbor, Mrs. Akmanek
Ive not seen this show in twenty some years
But with YouTube the cobwebs diappeared
So here I write ALF a tribute poem
This poor Melmakian without a home
Had to do some homework for this....hope you gotta rise out of it!!
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