Hmmm, okay then...

Obelisk, obelisk.
Alan the alien
bonked a fair maiden
from Ganymede Three.

Soon he was wishing for
hyperdimensional
surcease and freedom from
spatial VD.

HB

Floppy disc, sloppy disc
Alien Bonkerman
hopping from planet to
Janet with glee.

Living in spaceships and
spacesuits won’t save you from
sexually-transmitted
carnal debris.


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Response to Dorothy Parker*

Hoggimous, higgimous,
men are polygamous.
Sometimes, Ms. Parker, I
wish that were true.

Higgimous, hoggimous,
women monogamous.
Incontrovertibly?
Tell that to Sue!

*Dorothy Parker is reported to have once awoken in the middle of the night, thinking she had dreamed the answer to the world’s problems, scribbled it on a pad, and then fell back to sleep. When she woke up the next morning, she found she had written “Hoggimous, higgimous, men are polygamous. Higgimous, hoggimous, women monogamous.”



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Aliens, Raelians,
Zeta Reticulans
scoping out Terra for
food or for sex

count on their Lieder to
pseudocoherently
prosthelytize about
one "Planet X"

Hideous, widdeous
batrachophobia—
fear of amphibians
lurking in bogs.

Those who loathe toads suffer
bufonophobia;
ranidophobiacs
can’t abide frogs.

Tersical versicle,
Higgledy-Piggledy,
wasting my time in a
way that I like -

super-symmetrical
sesquipedalian
moto perpetuo
exercise bike.

Buckyball, duckyball
Soccer-ball molecule:
Five dozen carbons
arranged in a sphere

Named, very fittingly,
Buckminsterfullerene:
Most geodesically
bouncy, I hear.

Duckytape, wuckytape
Fortress America:
Seal all the windows and
bar all the doors!

Eek! While we’re flaunting this
hyperpreparedness,
al-Qaeda minions might
surge through the floors.

Treetopper bebopper
Camelopardalis—
“Stealth” constellation makes
stargazers laugh.

Chiefly renowned for its
invisibility—
Who would have thought you could
hide a giraffe?

Labyrinth flabberinth
Borges the polymath
Lexical alchemist
extraordinaire

Artfully practiced his
transfigurational
magic on language with
consummate care


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