The five-liner form of the limerick
needs literary skills, mostly rhyth-m-ic;
the clerihew
very few.
To
be a vigilante
is
absolutely anti
the
Sermon on the Mount -
which
no longer seems to count....
More evil and much more obnoxious
than ’phone bugs and top-secret dossiers
is your neighbourhood ‘pi’ vigilante;
I’m anti.
The
A.S.B.’s
the
C. of E.’s
attempt
to fix in lexicon
their
God; but where the ’eck’s ’e gone?
When Margaret’s
hard to get,
and Celia’s steelier,
Delia - will yer?
(March,
1995)
Note: This last
one is for Eddie!
