double dactyls for your delectation

from "Nero's Apology" by Johnny Horton
and included in PONTOON NINE:


GABRIEL

Hickory Dickory,
Archangel Gabriel--
Luckiest heavenly
Creature by far--

Visited virginal
Mary of Galilee--
Amorous messenger,
Came like a star.


JESUS OF NAZARETH

Hillory, pillory
Jesus of Nazareth,
Walked over Galilee,
Thrilling his friends.

Shirking authority--
Anti-society--
Wasn't a savior who
Followed the trends.


BENITO MUSSOLINI

Hippity, hoppity
Duce the ditator
Spewed forth his rhetoric
All over town.

Now there's a statue of
Ronald McDonald there.
WHich is the dictator?
Which is the clown?