Saturday Silly: A Whangdang Howdy-Do!

If you think of Agamemnon, hero and leader of the Greek forces at Troy, you probably think of this.

Or maybe this:

Or for the great unwashed:

But I think this Shakespearean sonnet gets it just about right.

Agamemnon Before Troy

John Frederick Nims

Er will bloss zeigen, wie es

eigentlich gewesen ist—Ranke

(He merely wants to point out 

how it actually happened.)

A-traipsin’ from a shindig, I unsaddles—
Three floozies an’ a blatherin’ buckaroo
Wangled the whole caboodle, and skedaddles.
You in cahoots with thet shebang, skidoo!—
Seein’ if yer the critters I suspecion,
You varmints ain’t a-goin’ to hotfoot far.
Sartin galoots is sp’ilin’ for conniptions—
Wal, they’s a posse hustlin’ here an’ thar


Fixin’ to put to the kibosh on the shenanigans
By landin’ scalawags in the calaboose.
Hornswoggled! sich palaver with bamboozlin’
Coyotes gits my dander up! Vamoose
Totin’ spondulicks an’ the cutie too!
They’re itchin’ fer a whangdang howdy-do!