Sad Clerihew Poems

Mayor Lori Lightfoot's
  Hopes turned into soot

     Her dreams of adulation
     Metamorphed to detestation...

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For Jack  B Yeats
sibling fame was his sad fate
An illustrator was his particular art
also a poet for the main part...

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Michelangelo Merisi
came from Caraaggio to be free
with a history of hooliganism in Milan
his art helped* redeem this sad epigram


*https://www.wikiart.org/en/caravaggio/young-sick-bacchus...

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President Joseph Biden



Is Joe Biden really our President?
That most obtuse White House resident!
Who brought back 1982 sky high inflation!
And thinks he is the MD of...

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Doug Heffernan
A goofy and humorous man
He spurred belly laughs with every show
Sad when the King of sitcom had to go

Carrie Heffernan
A wife and workaholic with...

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Garfield and Jon,                                             ...

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Garbage collector Aimee
Is an inspiration to me
Always dressed up neat
For her job, a big feat

Rings door bell with smiling face
Of her problems never a trace
Does...

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Charles Manson
Dreamed of mansions

   Where he'd breathe free, exhale ~
   Alas, of what avail are dreams in jail




   ...

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My Dad, a huge giver                    ...

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So desperate for attention
He foments vote-count dissension

   Every day a new twist or turn
   Nero fiddles, while Rome burns...

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Our President Donald Trump
Has been given a bad bump
Pictures of defeat so grim
Media really hates him  

So sad how he has been treated from...

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All the birthday boys,                     ...

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Robin Williams,
one of Chicago’s native civilians. 
Became the best comedian in the late seventies,
poor man died from depression’s disease.

Known for his “hyper-comedy”,
Hook, Patch Adams and...

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I went to university to study mathematics
The performance of my teachers was  boring not ecstatic
So then I   went to London to earn...

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John Winston Ono Lennon
From Britain to Brooklyn, decked in denim
Controversial through his peace and political activism
Felled by Mark David Chapman's act of barbarism...

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