"Is it spelled doozy or -ey or -ie?"
                     from a letter
It's doozy in the dictionary, and doozy in my heart,
and doozy up and down the street.

It's doozy where the daisies roam
and dizzy where the lovers doze
and days are lazy.

It's doozy where it's Dacey
and acey-deucy upsy-daisy,
dipsy-doodle when it's crazy,
but doozy all the time.

It's doozy any way you spell it,
but dicey if you try to sell it,
doozy any way you slice it,
with doozy you don't have to spice it up.

So doozy this and doozy that
and keep your doozy hot
and let your doozy out when it wants out,

for hunky dory introibo ad altare dei
makes a fellow woozy
onesy-twosy
does he does she
yes they doozy
to the tune of Tommy Dorsey William Basie any
bluesy band.

Then tell your Suzie there's no time for choosy
and it's all good newsy
till the boozy blowsy
easy jazzy
doozy end.

Reprinted by permission of the author from THE MIDWEST QUARTERLY (Summer, 1999).