0.0. Hearken, good readers all -- Vicki the dactylist, Scorning the masculine Rhyme -- it don't fill our bowls! -- Truncates few quatrains, likes Bifemininity: Stressless and terminal Similar syllables. 0.1. "Higgledy Piggledy, Czar of all dactylists, Issues this edict: The Quatrain ends so!" (Said he.) Vicki replies that her Antidogmatical Precepts prevail over Prettified prosody. -------------------------------------- -------------------------------------- 1. Aria area -- Dr. A. Borodin Left his poor patients in Care of less harried eyes, Thinking he'd operate Best if he put just a Musicological Stranger in Paradise. 2. Hey lady, lay lady -- Robert A. Zimmerman Said, "The poor lot of a Drab dude ain't thrillin'. Wales is remote, but her Laureate bard makes this Anagrammatical BLAND BOY Bob Dylan." 3. Snippety clippety -- Young Myron Breckenridge Had a few doubts for his Surgeon to squelch. "Cut all you want," he said Supertranssexually, "If you're quite sure I'll come Out as Ms. Welch." 4. Ta ra ra boom de yay -- Ted J. Kaczynski, prof, Found his diversions in Complex analysis Somewhat inelegant Sans the fine touch of hands Unabombastically Shorn of their callouses. 5. Karmic cosmology -- Scholars Einsteinian, Penning proud epics to Destiny's universe, Scoff at the crap-shooting Microparticulate Quantum-mechanical Theories as puny verse. 6.0. First lady, terse lady -- Eleanor Roosevelt, Broad of mind, thought she could Dance quite a swank lindy. Guiding the nation, though, Couldn't be left to her Machiavellian Hubby, Chief Franklin D. 6.1. Clinkety clankety -- Franklin D. Roosevelt Brought deepest thoughts to his Learned wife Eleanor: "Gold standards lead to an Autocatalysis Vulnerability. Better to sell an ore!" 7.0. Dazzling diversity -- William J. Clinton, Esq., Flashed a menorah in Harlem for Hanukkah. Hillary, vexed at his Variegational Values, hissed, "Shit-can your Torchlight for Monica." 7.1. Hipster hypocrisy -- Senator Hillary Stands by her man in her Ivory palace, sees: Heterosexuals Hagiographically; Affianced faggots as Foibles and fallacies. 8. Artful aristocrat -- Queen-delict Hockey Mom Quaintly holds marriage not Meant to be fairy fun, iving our taggers a Palindromistical Counterorthography: "I harass Sarah I." 9. Aria Maria -- Callas Divina (now Coloratura, now Helden-drammatico) Sailed from Verona to Aristotelian Seas, as her repertoire Sank to a flat echo. 10.0 Iced Ideology -- David A. Paterson (New York state senator, Head Dem, from Sugar Hill), Turned from his home base and Scorned legislative for Gubernatorial. He ate a sucker pill! 10.1 Princess of politics -- Caroline Kennedy, Jobless at fifty, scanned Listings by Paterson For, you know, qualities Hereditarily Biogenetical. She's in the shatter zone! 10.2 Luxe libertarian -- Kirsten E. Gillibrand, Neither a Jew nor a Seventh Day Adventist, Parses the next clause for Religiosity, Finding her faith as a Second Amendmentist. 0-10 (A long-count, no-dactyl, knockout sentence, with heartfelt appreciation of a courageous, peace-loving people whose lovely orthography terminates in two much-needed characters.) 0-3 A geezer of no net worth re-enacted, 4,5 by a boffo urge in Sufi verism, 6,7 rapacious Ixion's heinous event, 8-10 which he'd heighten in extent. Vicki Richman http://vicric.com