William Shakespeare was a play-write
He really wrote a play right ...
Yet if his 'words were magic'
~ Why were his plays so tragic?
Charles Dickens first addition
of "Olive or Twist" was darn good fix-shun ...
The epitome of 1800's political correctness
~ Monsieur-Monster Fagin's vile "semitic' invectiveness
Ernest Hemingway's son all ways rises
as the old man caught a fish in the si
of the Spain and the bullfights he at ended
~ far from the USA, where he couldn't bend-o'er his gender
Today Dan Brown and John Grisham are the right oars
who rule the roost of the literary pie'll ...
They rite and they right and they write till they drop
~ their draw-ores ... it's the latest literary sty'L
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