Poems, Stories, and Silliness by Lee A. Hart

Lee Hart is an electrical engineer who provides invaluable input to electric vehicle and retrocomputing hobbyists. He also has quite a gift for writing and composing. He has composed many stories, poems, and song lyrics over the years. Some of the more memorable are included here for your perusal and enjoyment. Use your "Back" button to return to this page.

Here's a little Holiday puzzler to get things started.

On Electric Vehicles

The Man Who Never Recharged (a re-hash of "The Man Who Never Returned")

Gas Hog Lincoln (to the tune of the 1950's song "Hot Rod Lincoln")

EV Monster Mash (the old "Monster Mash" song with an EV spin)

Gasoline, and Diesel, and Wild, Wild Engines (a parody of the song "Cigarettes and Whiskey and Wild, Wild Women")

Check your batteries out (loosely based on Shel Silverstein's "Sarah Cynthia Siliva Stout")

How the Grinch sold Green-ness (a take-off on Dr. Seuss's "Grinch" story)

Christmas EV (to the tune of "The 12 days of Christmas")

A Christmas Car (my spin on Dicken's classic story "A Christmas Carol")

On Engineering and Computing

Computers of Pi (a personal history of Microcomputing)

The Monster Mac (reanimating an old Heathkit computer as a Mac clone)

Engineer Disease (a re-engineered version of Dire Straits "Industrial Disease")

Mother Hopper (a tribute to Grace Hopper; a computer pioneer and Admiral in the US Navy)

The Programmer's Blues (inspired by my attempts to learn C)

Bugs in the Code (a silly little ditty about programming bugs)

Ode to Eight Bits (Kermit the Frog would have liked 8-bit computers)

Memory for Nothing (My take on another Dire Straits' song)

The Manager and the Engineer (Lewis Carroll's The Walrus and the Carpenter, with a Dilbert/corporate twist)

On Everything Else

The Accumulator's Apprentice (so you thought Mickey Mouse had problems?)

Abdul Abulbul Amir (the trials and tribulations of tiny pirates)

The Alien Among Us (about the terrible monster in the basement)

Cat Calls (a silly ditty about an itty bitty kitty)

Cat Ravin' (not about a raven, but rather my parent's cat and dog)

The Chimes (my abridged version of Charles Dickens forgotten classic "The Chimes")

They Don't Make em No More (On the challenges of fixing old things with new parts)

The Great Northwoods Adventure (a tale of living on the wild side)

High Grade Ore (the tale of a lonely miner that struck it rich; just a bit too late)

January, Minnesota (A tribute to the adventures of Winter in Minnesota)

Love Alone (A little poem for a special someone)

The Ones Who Didn't Fit In (Let's not be too hasty about declaring someone who is different as a failure)

Old Iron (on the satisfaction of keeping and using old stuff)

Some Little Bug (perhaps this will cheer you up a little about the covid-19 virus)

Squirrelled Away (this one's more than a little nutty)

Stardust (entropy is certainly not our friend)

Tools (like guns, make all the difference)

The Topological Twist (A twisted tale indeed)

The Unliving Room (A sad tale of modern life in the screens)

Where No One's Gone Before (something inspired by Gene Roddenberry)

Zeke the Streak (doggerel verse about our dog Zeke)