gilt-edged,
world-class, the real McCoy.
Heads up! Achtung! Take heed! Ahoy!
as I some
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 prompts
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.’
It takes two
Ts to ‘Tinker Toy.’
A U starts
‘Ubu Roi.’ (Think “Roy.”)
A V…? V
launches ‘Vic-e-roy.’
To kick off
‘weiner’ (saveloy),
A W you
must deploy.
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
(or worse: to
thoroughly annoy),
a Z
originates ‘Zoy Zoy.’
Now...let me
hear your “Atta boy!”!
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