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- Clerihew Girl
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Madame Marie Curie
Loved both racing and tomato puree.
So, one day – on her way to the stadium –
Because of this, invented radium.
- COMMENTS
LeBrozabout 17 years agoThis poem was mentioned in the Archival Review thread, in a picking through Lit's archive of over 35,000 poems.
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LeBrozabout 17 years agoAnd then with that first comment, got to think there are some folks with so little lightness of soul that they make Scrooge look like a laughing riot! Some pieces are just plain damn fun!
Anonymousabout 19 years agobut there was enough to make me feel drawn in as a reader, and I couldn't make much sense of it. I would expand.
My Erotic Taleabout 19 years agonow I know, but whats radium <laughing my assking off>
very cute clever and funny~
evelyn_carrollabout 19 years agoAuthorThis last comment does rather miss the point about clerihews. They’re MEANT to be a load of bollocks. Although there are some rules. Quatrain of two couplets with uneven, speech-like rhythm plus at least one reference to reality and a touch of wit. Here is the one I regard as the paradigm work by Edmund Clerihew Bentley (1875-1956) and upon which my parody is fawningly based.
Sir Humphrey Davy
Abominated gravy.
He lived in the odium
Of having discovered sodium.
Well, of course, Curie didn’t INVENT the metal. But that’s clerihew for you.
