All-Star Clerihews #3: Clerihews Redux

Kirby Yates
Would follow a website that rates
The performances of Kate Winslet
Based on her accent.

Ketel Marte
Would eat banana cream parfaits
At every meal, but doesn’t because
His contract has a weight-gain clause.

Steven Kwan
Will drone on and on
About investing in Bitcoin
Because he’s got the acumen of a pork loin.

Trea Turner
Is a slow learner
3 times invested with Steven Kwan!
Man, that money’s gone gone gone…

All-Star Clerihews #2: Clerihew Requiem

Rafael Devers
Will never say never
But he’s pretty sure
He wouldn’t go on a gastronomic foraging tour.

Paul Skenes
Mentors awkward teens.
Growing up in California
He too had acne and body dysphoria.

Elly de la Cruz
Has over 400 pairs of shoes
And 75 square meters
Of Odor Eaters.

Alec Bohm.
Wherever he lays his hat is his home.
But wherever he is across the nation,
He digs The Temptations.

Road Trip!

I will be traveling until July 4, so the daily doggerel and weekly Substack email will resume then. You can still submit poems and songs, at the Submit tab above, and spend some time exploring our archives, stretching back to 2007! See you all soon!

Final AB

By Paul Kocak

Even with extra innings
The end comes
High inside
Or sweeping curve
It comes.
We all know that stance
Remember his grip
Curled and coiled.
We see the swing
And hear the crack.
The ball sails somewhere
Into the night
Into the silent
Empty stands.
It pierces our heart.
For he is going
Going gone.
Willie Mays, my youth.