Jim Healey Poet Clerihew

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(Entry for the Literary Character Clerihew Poetry Contest, sponsor: Andrea Dietrich, submitted January 7, 2026)

Sir Toby Belch

Sir Toby Belch
was an Englishman, not Irish or Scottish or Welsh!
He could be a notorious flirt
but, deep down, was just a fun-loving extrovert.

(William Shakespeare's famous comic character from The Merry Wives of Windsor and Twelfth Night)

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Andrea Dietrich January 13, 2026 at 2:47 PM You chose such an interesting character I would have thought it was an actual person until I saw below that it was from Shakespeare. I guess it's hard to think up rhymes with belch but you came pretty darn close. Congrats in my contest. Jim Healey January 13, 2026 at 3:46 PM Thanks, Andrea. The fun with a clerihew is to come up with something that rhymes with the surname. I think this one worked out pretty well. Take care.