I've loved this poem for many years. At my old job, I even printed it and had it in my cubicle. Nobody quite understood why I liked it though....
SerendipityApparently
Great medical advances
Are often made
By happy chance
Like Fleming stumbling
On penicillin
Or me stumbling on
serendipityfarm.com
Which tells how to spot
If a llama is choking:
'Animal gives impression
That he/she is having
Difficulty breathing'
He also wrote this one:
Gone
"I’m off", he said.
And with that
he was gone.
Like something
that was here once
but isn’t any more.
Like the Incas.
Or a pea
that’s rolled under
the fridge.
Or a spider
that’s been flushed down
the toilet.
Or someone
who’s just delivered
a pizza.
Or a pizza
that’s just been eaten
except for a crumb
that’s been taken by spaceship
to the edge of the time
and space continuum
and kicked out
into nothingness.
And then he came back
with the newspaper.
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