The Annal of Improbable Results once requested that people send in "SciFaiku", that is, science-oriented haiku. I wrote a bunch of haikus and sent them to Marc Abrahams, but I don't know if he ever used them for anything. In any case, here they are.
Entrails everywhere
This experiment is gross
Screw you, Schrödinger
My twin is ancient
Tricked into staying at home
While I toured the stars
A sly dig at Hooke
Standing on giants' shoulders
Newton was a prick
A quantum kitty
By any other measure
Would purr as strangely.
Archimedes' friend:
Give me a place to sit and
I will gladly watch.
The Archimedes joke is not original with me, but I did manipulate it to fit the 5-7-5 scheme.
How to make haiku
With a horrible name like
Aristophanes?
Creationist rant:
"My ancestors were not apes!"
Rave on, monkey-boy.
Surf the World-Wide Web!
Computers are now sexy
Show me the porn sites
Mars probes disappear
Tabloids say aliens are
Holding them hostage
See NASA probe crash.
Crash, probe, crash! Dick and Jane are
Now writing headlines.
Water on the moon?
I guess that makes more sense than
Feminine horses.
Mare. Get it? <Ducking and running>
A stone falls to earth
Matter warps space around it
Albert described it
I was trying to get in a pun on Einstein, but it didn't work.
Books on everything
No "Asimov on Heaven"
So it isn't there
I saw a quote on Taner Edis' Skeptic list which said, "If there were an afterlife, Isaac Asimov would have written a book about it by now." Unfortunately, the quote was overheard in a hallway, so I can't give the originator credit.
A little-known fact:
Fraunhofer snorted cocaine
Found lines everywhere
Wine and protocol
Deadly in combination
Tycho you poor fool
Tycho died because of a kidney infection. He stayed at the table drinking wine and talking to his guests, and didn't want to offend them by leaving to go pee.
Postmodernism
Cogno-intellectual
Can you say "bogus"?
And my personal favorite:
Droning on and on
Talking about the atom
What an awful Bohr.