Mark A. Mandel
Ttto "Carmen Miranda's Ghost Is Haunting Space Station Three" by Leslie Fish
"(_)" stands for a rest: a beat without a syllable
Leslie Fish's ghost is haunting (_) Argo Port,
A phantom with a mighty laugh and a fuse that's rather short.
She doesn't bother visitors or the residents or crew
But the bureaucrats are going bats and they can't think what to do.
A Starship crew was tearing up the town on R&R.
The Shore Police commandant said, "This time they've gone too far!"
He pressed down on the transmit key to mobilize all hands,
But the sound of a twelve-string guitar was jamming all the bands.
Argo's leading dissident for treason was on trial.
The court had met in secret: open hearings weren't their style.
The judge said "You'll make no more trouble, now you're going to hang."
Defendant smiled, "See you in Hell!" and he went out with a bang.
The priest of Argo Temple summoned heaven's fire down,
All infidels and heretics to scourge from Argo town.
But the incense that he lit to them the gods liked not at all:
It seems someone had swapped it for black powder and alcohol.
Leslie Fish's ghost is haunting Argo Port.
She doesn't groan and rattle chains, she never was that sort.
She's an ectoplasmic activist for liberty and mirth,
Doing what she sang about while living and on Earth!
-- Olé!
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