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Double Drivel (Unlike a Yoyo on a String)
By Joe Pivetti

If you've hosed down a wall of clashing fresh paint, you've likely hosed up the taint. One must get up from a seat at a disco, to get down and boogy...with an "out-of-cage" gogo. If you feel up for petting a small pet, you might have to feel down...to do it. A reporter who can dig down into the weeds, might dig up some novel dirty rag feeds. If you bring up what's tabu, you might smell really good...whilst bringing down your rep in the neighborhood. An accountant may write down a loss, but an officer will write up a gain...if a driver's exhibiting sauce. You button up a button down vest, unless you're Gracy Allen in College Swing (then it's just west). At daybreak you hoe up around the beets, then after nightfall, you hoe down to the beats. You pipe up to complain, or pipe down if you're lame. One might use eider for cover...down at a quilty place, or a feathered boa...to cover up a guilty face. Officials that have stripes on a tee down their back, have to be man up to tee up...a nose tackle for flack. A hack of a golfer might slice down the fairway...with a slice up of a divot from a swing with a sway. You pull up to park at the stand of a courteous valet, who has the drive to pull down...more bucks than his wage. A revenuer might knock a still down with an axe, and, then, be still up for continued moonshiner attacks. One thinking "no mas" might still stay up all night, but the next day he'd better stay down if dropped in a fight. One gets to a walk up by steps above the first floor, but in a walk down...memory lane, all that arises is lore. One might cook up a plot, or cook down stew in a pot. One might be doubled up in pain with a frown, when a dealer shows a black jack...right after you've doubled down. One might gear up with panniers for a Provincial go, and then gear down on the tough ride up to Le Baux. Here's a heads up to for our new hires, "keep your heads down or you're fired!" You might have to face up to the fact, that in a face down with Ryan, you might not get much on the bat. If you chalk down a plan that's gone over the fence, you just might have to chalk it all up...to experience. A lay down might be a rest in a non-grammarian joint, but a lay up...is usually an easy two points. A ship maid might, during the day, make down a bed, and, later that night, take off her make-up, after hitting the head. You can become very run down or quite ill, if, at a hosted bar, you decide to run up the bill. You can get up by taking the kitty, and, with any luck, you can get down from a duck. An English driver will change down to ease some break wear, but, at a ball park...a change up'll drive a batter to swear. If you can't work down the price of that ring your wife fancies, you might have to work up a reason for settling on pansies. A (non-Southern) Baptist might have to gather up her frock...then call "let's gather down by the river" out to her flock. As you trim up a tree, you might be quite jolly, and less so later, to trim down your jelly belly...due to cookie and nog folly. You call up a friend, but you call down a fiend. If you get the low down from a hungry bovine party, it might've come from a low up...the back forty. Fresh water will slowly freeze down at 32 degrees, but if you freeze up, you're not so cool...in an emergency. Superior people might look up words in a dictionary, so they can look down upon others with "obviously less"...vocabulary. Once you've iced down an ache, you'll look forward to another long skate...out on an iced up great lake. A deviless model must be made-up, before studio close down...else her close up study...won't be Elle bound. A refugee might huddle down out of the cold in the fall, while an offense in no hurry might huddle up...for a 4 minute call. A bandit might snarl dully "hands up" and "give me your bread", but, hands down, he's not the sharpest tool in the shed. You should publicly put up a good front, when a put down is hurled at you as an afront. An athlete might live down an embarrassing game, and later, with return of true form, live up to his...or her famous name. A hood might secretly shakedown a proprietor on his turf, until a shake-up reveals...the goods on an abetting bad perp. If you tie down an agreement it's solid, but if you don't tie up the loose ends, it's invalid. Make sure you're not being set up for a fall, when signing something set down in Tammany Hall. At a British gym, you'll slap down some pounds to get in, then reclaim the same..when slap-up meals are no longer a sin. A sinner, wakening from dreams of the fire down below, might feel it fire up atonement...to recomportment more hallow. One might send up a flare if there is trouble, or send down for a stuntman...if risky play action...calls up for a double. A woodworking apprentice needs to shape up...at the lathe, for the right to shape down cabriole-style legs...in good faith. A foul-mouthed comedian might crack up a prompt crowd, but censors just might crack down...if the language's too loud. It becomes easier to settle down into good financial habits...after you settle up...all those nasty old outstanding debts. Mark Jackson might say to a guard, "man up" in SF, then "hands down, man down" (if he can't slow down...Mr. Steph). If an amour makes you break down and cry, then you'd better break up...with that totally unfeeling guy. Even voice recorder armed, if you take up a writing career, you best take down notes...on most of news that you hear. An officer who would dress up in "go to dinner" service blues, wouldn't dress down a waiter...just for gravy stained shoes. You might want to zip up your parka, before you zip down to a base in Antarctica. When trying to keep up in a hot dog eating contest, it may be a challenge to keep down the contents. At a pageant, a miss might size up the competition, then decide to size down her dressing condition. It can be a real let down at Oracle park, if the rain doesn't let up before "play ball"...was foreseen to be barked. When you demonstrate and stand up for your rights, you hope that the baton wielding police...stand down for the night.