Daily Dose

From The Oxford Book of American Light Verse, chosen and edited by William Harmon

VICE

"Higgledy-piggledy
Thomas Stearns Eliot
Wrote dirty limericks
Under the rose,

Using synecdoches,
Paranomasias,
Zeugmas, and rhymes he de-
Plored in his Prose."

A Poem, by Anthony Hecht