Known as 'The Big Bopper'
He preceded the Big Mac, but not the Whopper
His real name was J.P. Richardson
His songs a barrel of monkeys, full of fun
We all know J.P. liked 'Chantilly Lace'
Just wild for her ponytailed pretty face --
When he called her on the phone
All he did was moan and groan --
Seems 'Miss Lace' put 'The Bopper' in his place...
Then in Clear Lake Iowa, 1959, on February 3
An airplane crash took the Bopper's life tragically
That was the day America's music died
~ Immortalized in Don McClean's 'American Pie'
September 04 2019
Clerimerick Couplets (Hybrid Form) Poetry Contest
Sponsor: Mark Toney
The watch was
at 6:00 AM to
12 at noon..,
I used to be a
ponytailed girl
and in pinching shoon.,
Unfounded copied
Archimedes principle
And schrodinger equation..,
Hackneyed to home
dipped in
infuriation.
The time from
9:00 PM to midnight fire..,
the nighty miss
changed into
blonde blushy rhymer.,
Topsy turvy me
hearted out all..,
Pink Orchids,
Blue Morphos
and
Blooming Me,
with a doll.
A white dossier is neither a manual for a pilot on a pivotal stand nor a baking tray waiting for butter. Criss cross ducking on an angled penned out sketch. Drawing a ruin is not a clever idea for ruins are raving and raving is a radiant rather real rhombus reaching radical radios rationally. But a tall ironed turban is a fanciful cheese at a party wrapped in silky golden studded bread paper. And the tissues are to be halted at the wide gates for they are increasingly dangerous when they are wet and wet is not rain, oil, or paint. It is the will of the course on a cross country that spans over 12, 650, 901 miles. And a kilometre is neither a kayak nor a kaleidoscopic kale. Making a mark on a moonlit mortality. And the ship goes beep beep beep in complete unison with an underground bus. Boom then. Bull bringing bombs baking beasts. And a ponytailed servant mouse peeking from a window in shrewd observation of the spectacular show below in a glow and in goblets grunting. Give no iron fists talon to a bluebird balancing on a jelly bean. Hahaha washing windows will water wallabies. Hahaha spoon dancing with a grape. Xxxxxx consequentialism
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