Star Wars Double Dactyls
I.
Dashingly, flashingly,
Lando Calrissian
Brings a significant
Issue to light:
Why should we presuppose
Anthropomorphical
Alien beings come
Only in white?
II.
Naughtily, haughtily,
Emperor Palpatine’s
Thoroughly evil and
Power obsessed.
Here is a person so
Machiavellian,
Newspaper publishers
Look on, impressed.
III.
Vendible, spendable,
Constable Zuvio’s
Only on screen for a
Second, perhaps.
This doesn’t limit his
Marketability:
Toys of him sell in their
Thousands to saps.
Flipping Heck
For Martha, and Molly too
I knew the pain was likely to provoke
The coining of a racy phrase or two,
And so it did; your swearing masterstroke
Was surely “f**k-a-c**t-a-doodle-doo!”
For reasons unexplained you never cursed
When anyone in scrubs came in to check
On how you were dilating; then the worst
You had to offer up was “flipping heck!”
This prompted me to jokingly convey
A mock apology on your behalf;
“So sorry for that potty-mouthed display,”
Or some such thing. The midwife didn’t laugh;
She gave my arm a reassuring pat
And said, “Don’t fret, we hear far worse than that.”