Clerihews 2007
   
 

(February 8th)
Anna Nicole Smith

  mimicked the Marilyn myth,
and married an aged millionaire.
One simply had to say, “What a pair!”
     
     
 

(April 23rd)
Boris Yeltsin

  Snow that melts in
Russia in the spring
reveals everything.
     
     
 

(April 27th)
Mstislav Rostropovich

  interpreted Shostakovich
among many fellows
who composed for cellos.
     
     
 

(July 30th)
Bergman, Ingmar

  rook, knight and king are
splendid when the game begins,
but Death, in the end, always wins.
     
     
 

(September 6th)
Luciano Pavarotti

  joins Gian-Carlo Menotti
who died seven months prior
to prepare the choir.
     
     
 

(November 10th)
Norman Kingsley Mailer

  soldier, scribe and sailor,
literary litterbug?
To that, he would have said, “Fug!”
     
     
 

(November 30th)
Evel Knievel

  People who don’t grieve’ll
wonder what all the fuss is
over ravines and buses.
     
     
 

(December 8th)
The composer, Karlheinz Stockhausen

  to find him, it’s hopeless to browse in
music shops: they think his stuff is shite
and don't like 29 hours of ‘Light’.
     
     
 

(December 12th)
Ike Turner

  had a nice little earner
in Tina thunder-thighs
for whom he was undersize.

 



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