"I'm gonna get sicket ...

"I'm gonna, I'm gonna, I'm gonna!"

—Nancy Allen, Payson

In Utah you can look near and fa,

Finding names that elicit "aha."

Like Dell or like Don,

Or Vell or like Von,

But, of course, they're preceded by "La."

—Curt Bench, Salt Lake City

Lamenting the lack of an ocean,

A resourceful young lady from Goshen

Drained vats full of goo

Meant to make our skin Nu

And produced quite a puddle of lotion.

—Curg Johnson, Sandy

There was a young man from the "U"

Who got himself into a stew.

He washed his new jeans

With his white under things

And now all his skivvies are blue!

—Diane Coles, Sandy

A visionary man named Fred,

To potential backers once said,

"We'll put on a show

"With Shakespeare, you know."

Now his dream has put Utah ahead.

—Darold Humes, West Jordan

The lege is in sesh now; oh, yippee

("Fund schools? Are you some kind of hippie?")

Not to take them to task

But we really must ask

At least could we beat Mississippi?

—Eric Samuelsen, Provo

We reside by this lake of much salt,

Mountain views we love to exalt,

But shouldn't we take

Concern o'er a quake

Since we live 'long Wasatch, the Fault?

—Dale Brimley, Murray

A young Utah tourist named Alice

Went looking for salt in the Palace.

She looked all the day

And then went away,

"No salt, but I bear you no malice."

—Robert L. Layton, Provo

Paul Bunyan once made some ice cream,

And the salt water ran in a stream

From the great freezer can

Of that gigantic man;

Thus he made Great Salt Lake, it would seem.

—Norval Turner, Murray