h2g2 The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: Earth Edition

It looks so easy to do an acrostic when reading yours (although I know it isn't for me)!

I'll have to think of a more challenging word next.

Thank you. In a strange way t think that 'acrostics' are easier. You start with something - a 'subject' and a letter to start each line.

It is, in a way, a bit like designing buildings - it is (for me) easier to 'alter' or 'extend' a building than to start with a completely blank piece of paper and think, "Ummmmmmmmmmmmmmm....."

You have a point there. Then again, it can be somewhat restricting to have a subject and given letters to start each line with.
In any case your poems are always brilliant.

Hee hee, the blank piece of paper problem! And you can always just switch the letters and hope nobody notices if it doesn't work

Now you tell me, Mala.

lil with her eagle eyes would soon put a stop to that.

Too bad.

Buttton button button!
I'm distracting Lil
Run after the button!
Then I will
Delay not in swapping a letter
Here's a spot where it fits better
And she'll never see it's been done!
You know, this just might be fun!

(Or something like that, something that scans better )

I'm having trouble pronouncing birtdhay.

It looks like a nice word, though.

And nobody noticed the typo in the very first word, right?

Oh, it's a lil buttton, that's OK.

I strenuously deny that I put Malapropisms and other tripoes in just to keep Bell-Hell'n'lil on their toes!

Malapropisms? Is that my version of lillitis?

Thought you might bise to the rate!!