No boarded play, however grand
contains within those scrambled hands
behold, the lowly ampersand

No seriously rightful due
akin, alas, to double-u
are Bob & Hugh or me & you

The case for “and per se and” lies
within the work of ancient scribes,
is utterance; and there it dies

The double-u however, though,
is used in terms like woo and woe
and other witless words we know

Some hundred years ago was dissed
deposed from alphabet’s long list
the ampersand does not exist