Advice for razzle-dazzle girl or boy
When faced with hurly-burly of romance:
One should not stoop to mix with hoi-polloi;
Their mumbo-jumbo may induce a trance.
They speak of argy-bargy and the like
And harum-scarum exploits down the street,
Of hanky-panky 'hind the 'shed de bike';
Such tittle-tattle tales they think are sweet.
But you are born of super-duper stock;
Higgledy-piggledy love is not for you.
Such flibbertigibbet games are just a crock
For one whose hoity-toity blood is blue.
Though helter-skelter types may warm your bed,
Do not choose willy-nilly when you wed.
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Author Notes
Blame it on the hurdy-gurdy man and too much hokey-pokey ice-cream!
Flip-flop words are rhyming compounds like roly-poly and dilly-dally. I started with the idea of creating a contest with this as the theme, but then I wrote this as an example and stole all the best words!
Just in case that wasn't silly enough, in a moment of mania I decided to write my exemplar as a Shakespearean sonnet, wrangling my hodge-podge of flip-flops around iambic pentameter.
Enjoy!
P.S. Please don't be a fuddy-duddy and be offended by this fiddle-faddle. The nitty-gritty is that it's all wishy-washy.
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