R. S. Gwynn
Jerry Glenn Hartwig
Susan McLean
Joyce Nower
Patricia Sims
Gail White
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Double Dactyl Mingle-Mangle
by various authors
Postally costally
Ella Fitzgerald licks
any newcomer now
she’s on a stamp.
Rodgers and Hart can write
philatelistically:
Square though she may be, the
lady’s no tramp.
(ps)
Hooray for Diversity!
“Higamus Hagamus,
Prophet Tereisias,
How do you switch from a
her to a him?”
“Impossibilities
stir my acuities—
meaning think outward in-
stead of think in.”
(jn)
Persona Non Grata
Higgledy-piggledy,
Gaius Caligula
bedded his sisters and
claimed to be God.
In an imperial
paterfamilias,
this was considered a
little too odd.
(sm)
Higgledy-piggledy,
Issur Danielovich
Demsky would not fit on
Any marquee.
But as Kirk Douglas, the
Megacelebrity,
He flew to stardom. Our
Spartacus, he!
(rsg)
Higgledy piggledy
Emily Dickinson
Hadn't the gumption to
Publish her stuff
After her mentor, one
T. Wentworth Higginson,
Unsympathetically
Bellowed, “Enough!”
(gw)
Skywatching skybotching
poor little Pluto’s been
recatalogued to the
planet’ry skids.
Maybe it’s all down to
unastronomical
dollars—new orreries
for all our kids.
(ps)
Back-Up Plan
Skittery-scattery,
innocent Margaret,
finding Faust’s blandishments
hard to deter,
told Mephistopheles
apotropaically,
“Get thee behind me.” “Well,
if you prefer.”
(sm)
An Equation of Beauty
Floppily, moppily
old Albert Einstein had
frizzy white hair like a
janitor's mop.
He proved mathematically
—uncategorically—
beauty’s inside our heads,
not on the top.
(jgh)
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