Follow this link for a series of clerihews by my friend Brad.

A clerihew is a four-line biographical poem. They are characterized by a whimsical tone, and I thought maybe today we could use some whimsy. Included is this one about Dennis Cooper:

Party-pooper,
Dennis Cooper:
First violent erections…
Then, alas, vivisections.

(For the record, Brad is a big fan of Cooper’s work. Whimsy.)

More (including Foucault) after the jump

MICHEL FOUCAULT

Michel Foucault,
When moanin’ low,
Wrapped up his nethers
In studs & leathers.

And another:

SLAVOJ ZIZEK

Communist Slovene, Slavoj Žižek
Cashed a shameful if handsome paycheck
From the decadents at Abercrombie & Fitch
Thus admitting an unseemly itch to be rich.

Meter’s a little off on that one, Bradlum. But I like it nonetheless.

And finally:

EUDORA WELTY

Eudora Welty
Never once felt she
Need fly down to Rio,
Content at the P. O.

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