Heads up! Achtung! Take heed! Ahoy!
I'll sev'ral (twenty six) deploy.
An A fronts ‘Arundhati Roy.’
A B initiates ‘bok choy.’
A C gives birth to ‘corduroy.’
A D begins (sans ‘t’) ‘Detroi-.’
Edging forward, I employ
both E and F for ‘Eddie Foy.’
A G, in Yiddish, opens ‘goy’
plus half of Boorman’s “Hope and Glo’y.”
An H initials ‘hoi polloi’
and ‘Helen’ (formerly of Troy).
I takes the lead in ‘Illinois.’
(It also sets up ‘Iroquois.’)
A J…? It’s just to jump-start ‘joy.’
A K begins not ‘carp’ but ‘koi.’
An L…? ”The Thin Man”’s Myrna Loy.
An M heads Beckett’s play “Molloy.”
Annoyingly, N’s not for ‘noy,’
But O (sans ‘l’) opes ‘Olive Oy-.’
A P heads Rumpole’s ‘Pomeroy.’
Q leads not ‘Matsu,’ just ‘Quemoy.’
An R initiates ‘Rob Roy.’
An S inaugurates ‘St. Croix’
and stomps its impress on ‘Savoy.’
Two Ts to T trigger ‘Tinker Toy.’
A U starts ‘Ubu Roi.’ (Think 'Roy.')
A V…? V launches ‘Vice-er-roy.’
To kick off ‘weiner’ (saveloy),
a W one must employ.
An X prompts…not much. (As a ploy,
friends recommend the word ‘xystoi.’)
A Y leads ‘yo un nino soy.’
(From where I sit that’s “I’m your boy.”)
Last, lest these crambos start to cloy,
a Z originates ‘Zoy Zoy.’
Now: do I hear an “Atta boy!”…?
