s: Beware of Greeks Bearing Poems (Reader Comments and Addenda)
"Wight" provides another political double dactyl:
Higgledy Piggledy
Adalai Stevenson
lost it to Dwight and be-
came quite bereft.
He had his platform and
uncompromisingly
put himself just too damn
far to the left.
This has a couple of minor scansion problems, like the extra syllable in "Adlai," but I thought it made a nice companion piece to the Agnew stuff.
(Last updated: 10 January 1999)