I do not like you, Duncan King,
old fart lord of everything—
I will smite you with a pox
stick you in a wooden box

Same to you, you Lord Macduff—
get off home, you’ve done enough
Soon you’ll know in one fell swoop
what it’s like to lose a group

Total bonkers I do be
just leave all the rest to me
Then my darling will be king
crafty daft hereafter king

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Mary Cresswell is from Los Angeles and has lived for many many years on New Zealand’s Kapiti coast. As a child, they fed her Edgar Allen Poe, Ogden Nash, and Cole Porter, hence her lingering passion for light verse. Go figure.