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[dragonladyflame]

"Tact"
by Paul Pascal

Patty-cake, patty-cake,
Marcus Antonius
What do you think of the
African Queen?

Gubernatorial
Duties require my
Presence in Egypt. Ya
Know what I mean?

The above is an example of the Double Dactyl verse form, which I discovered because someone ordered the book Jiggery-Pokery: A Compendium of Double Dactyls (Anthony Hecht

Comments

[jonathankorman]

Higgamus hoggamus
Curse you, Red.
As if I needed
More distractions!

[dragonladyflame]

Hee hee. I think your meter is off, but I'm so glad to oblige.

[agnoster]

Can you make this game? Pretty please?

[dragonladyflame]

Nah, there'd be no market. :grin: It might've made a good BA thesis back when half my major was Philosophy, though.

[agnoster]

Great art doesn't need a market!

Well, phoo. If I can't get your help, I'll have to make it myself. But then we know it's going to suck :-)

[foxfour]

Twilight's Last Gleaming

Higgeldy piggeldy,
President Jefferson
Gave up the ghost on the
Fourth of July.

So did John Adams, which
Shows that such patriots
Propagandistically
Know how to die.

- John Hollander

[dragonladyflame]

You are the absolute best thing since slice bread. Since before sliced bread. Since anything. This made my week. I shall have to dream up something ridiculous to do for you in return.

[dragonladyflame]

Oops, but then I had to delete it because I remembered I don't want people to be able to find this by Googling my last name. Although really anyone halfway skillful could find this anyway, by Googling my full name and then Googling shataina or something ... but hey.

To give foxfour credit for his awesomeness: he wrote:

"here's one i wrote for you:

Limit break, Pimit break,
Lydia L****
Was for the most part a
Gamer of skill.

Yet when Shataina was
Vexed by compassion she
Unsympathetically
Started to kill."

Morpheus

[anonymous]

That's fantastic