lightning strikes twice

[buhrger]

some random websurfing about double dactyls turned up one on the subject of Teddy Kennedy:

Rosenkrantz Guildenstern
Theodore Kennedy
Gave to Kopechne a
Ride in his car.

After the party, they
Automechanically
Went like Montgomery
One bridge too far.

Richard Ussery

the alarming thing about this is that i recall one (from, i believe, The Joy

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[buhrger]

it feels gauche to comment on one's own post, but this b5 double dactyl found at http://www.kith.org/logos/words/lower/d.html deserved note:

Boom-chucka Boom-chucka
Susan Ivanova
Second banana on
Babylon 5

Known for her prophecies
Eschatological:
"No one gets out of this
Station alive!"
-Jim Moskowitz

[ex_butterfl246]

That is one weird poetic form. (I'll have to try it.)

[buhrger]

go for it. i'm fond of them, although i've not yet written any - my rhythmically, rhymically (that's so not a word - what's the adjectival form of "rhyme"?) and tonally constrained verse output is almost exclusively limerickoid.