Higgledy Piggledy, Jiggery Pokery

Higgledy piggledy, Broca's aphasia

Caused by a lesion to left hemisphere

Sufferer's speech becomes incomprehensible

Still they grasp others' speech, isn't that queer? 

Higgledy piggledy, Sun Chips made bags from a

Lactide-based polymer back in the day.

Everyone wanted things biodegradable,

Just not as loud as an auto da fe.

Higgledy piggledy, there is a genus of 

Germs causing leprosy, boils, TB.

Species are known as the Mycobacteria,

Acid-fast staining is used to ID.

Higgledy piggledy, Abraham Robinson

Introduced hyperreal numbers and showed

Mathematicians that infinitesimals

Weren't quite as bullshit as they had supposed.

Jiggery Pokery, poked by jigsaw, I see,

When you were trying to swap out a blade.

Unless you're taking strong anticoagulants,

Clotting will close the wound, grab a band-aid.

Higgledy piggledy, effective altruists

Try to get most moral bang for their buck

With expectational utilitarian-

-ism they famously do give a fuck.

Higgledy piggledy, Michelson/Morley a-

-ttempted to see luminiferous drag

With the aid of precise interferometry;

Theories of aether ran up the white flag.

Higgledy piggledy, old Stanley Kubric used 

Steadicams, Zeiss lenses, hundreds of takes.

With his perfectionist cinematography,

Showed us great monsters, death, perverts, and rakes.

Higgledy piggledy, Vessel Of Spirit and

Friends turned a weird sun from man into meme.

Template of off kilter humor/intelligence

Still likes obscurity though he's mainstream.

Higgledy piggledy, puritan clergyman

Drummed up hysteria, caused a witch hunt.

Mogged by some teenage pranks, failed to fight Satan's ranks,

Historiographies call him a cunt.

Higgledy piggledy, Sir Humphry Davy

Discovered a half dozen elements by

His pioneering of electrochemistry,

Also found nitrous gas gets you real high.

Toxicological median lethal dose

Tells us the mass of a substance that will

Kill off just half of a test population, like

Hydrogen cyanide or plaquenil.

Higgledy piggledy, Miller experiment

Mixed common gasses and zapped them to form

Abiogenic goop, amine-based acid soup;

Extraterrestrial life is the norm?

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I've composed several melodies that match Higgledy Piggledy poems for scansion, if you want to sing/play these poems or others like them:

Melody 1

Melody 2

Melody 3

For pre-existing melodies, the welsh folk tune Llwyn Onn / (a.k.a. The Ash Grove) can be adapted nicely, but it's not a straightforward one-to-one note-to-syllable alignment.