Ding Dong Daddy Poem by Barry Middleton

it is time for some voodoo
or hoodoo could do you
a sestina for the ballerina

I'll try whatever may help
a burnt offering of goat
mix a spud in chicken blood

I've heard of potions
powders and lotions
chants and smoking roots

desperation lies in extremes
measuring the circumference
of a lifetime of flipping coins

so in the end I will befriend
crazy notions to plug the dam
a witch doctor or a jam scam

a necromancer or a pole dancer
a ding dong daddy from Dumus*
maybe can bring me some luck

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*From the old song sung by Arthur Godfrey,
Phil Harris and many others.