J. Patrick Lewis George
By J. Patrick Lewis
Psychophant sycophant
George Stephanopoulos
Traded dark secrets at
Washington’s door.
Now, for the love of those
Mediamegabucks,
Look who the little pimp’s
Calling a whore.
Psychophant sycophant
George Stephanopoulos
Traded dark secrets at
Washington’s door.
Now, for the love of those
Mediamegabucks,
Look who the little pimp’s
Calling a whore.
Reminder: I'll be giving away a copy of The World's Greatest: Poems, one of J. Patrick Lewis's books of light verse, as a poetry prize for the second week of National Poetry Month. All you have to do to be eligible for Sunday's drawing is to leave a comment at one of my posts dated April 5-11.
The World’s Greatest: Poems
Written by J.Patrick Lewis & Illustrated by Keith Graves
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Whoa!
ReplyDeleteI tried reading this one out loud -- the tongue-twisting words scan so perfectly, and that punch at the end -- I like it! There's something so viscerally satisfying about using poetry to express a scathing opinion!
Tanita,
ReplyDeleteYour comment on Pat's poem is so well expressed--just like Pat's scathing opinion of George S.
Pat, that's double wonderful, in a dactylic way. Here is a political clerihew for you, Elaine, and for Pat. It's called "A Clerihew in Praise of Chinese Take Home":
ReplyDeleteGeorge W. Bush and Laura
might project a less white-bread aura
if they would just eat kung pao
every then and now.
Julie,
ReplyDeleteThanks for the clerihew about Dubya and his missus. Clerihews and double dactyls are fun to read and write.
I'd agree that Pat's poem is "double" wonderful.
It's always a pleasure to find one's poem on indefatigable Elaine's website(s). (She never sleeps.) And thanks to you, too, Julie, for that deft Clerihew, which only serves to whet my appetite for your forthcoming holiday Clerihew (shhh).
ReplyDeleteBrava! Pat
Elaine (and Pat), it's more than momentarily stunning to read such a pointed, and pointedly adult, verse by a favorite children's poet!
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