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Bernoulli's Principle

If you point a hair dryer up and switch on the air,
Now drop a table tennis ball into the rushing air flow.
The ball hovers and spins, it stays right up there.
This is called Bernoulli's principle, you know.

You can produce this effect several different ways.
Switch on a large fan and drop in a beach ball.
Like before, it hovers around. It doesn't blow off, it stays!
Still there are more ways, this is not all.

Try a flexible straw with a table tennis ball or small balloon.
Foil balls work well, but are the trickiest to get going.
This way is the hardest to do, but with practice you should master it soon.
Balloons are light and easy. They hover long and high with only light blowing.

Buy a mini-fan from a local drug store.
Blow up small balloons; be sure to take down the knot.
Another portable Bernoulli blower, this is method number four.
Display it in the car. A window science show is what you've got.

--Will Bortz



Underneath
see you clearly
surface finish: highly glossed
underneath
chipped wood
split grains
false precedings
and never let on
so I look
and see
what I had always hoped wasn't there

--Marissa Wetzel
Affectations
I walk the hallowed halls
of out bastion of intellect.
Against my immature chest, I press my conventional stack of books.
(because no boy will carry them for me)
I wear the faultless woolen skirt
and pretend to be naive.
(but did I tell you that I am not wearing underwear beneath this chastity belt
of woolen cloth and academic propriety?)

--Hannah Rohde


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