Tuesday, June 30, 2015

DUM DIGGLEDY DAM


Dum diggledy dam I swear we love! Where
doesn’t matter, does it? It does? Then hell
and everywhere! We turn hell (when we’re there)
to heaven! Make sufferers love to dwell
there! Dum diggledy dam damn straight we do!
See how, when sunlight crawls from bed, we blend
grey clouds to raspberry sherbet? It’s true!
Dum diggledy dam we do! Bright bars bend
to rainbows thanks to we! (Or should “we” be “us”?)
Dark oceans radiate to shining seas!
Dam diggledy dam they do! Shall we discuss
why all wars end and world pandemics cease
when singing laughing we come dancing through?
We love! So dum diggledy dam they do!

Roger Armbrust
June 30, 2015