Clerihews are in the news

Clerihews are in the news: the Boston Globe, as faithful raders of this blog know, is running a contest. Here are three from the pen of Jim Cummins.

Sporting Life

Wilt Chamberlain
discovered sin
required a log
to log them in.

*

Pete Rose, brother,
by any other
moniker would stink,
is what I think.

*

Joe DiMag
ruled like the Raj.
But when he passed,
they capped his ass.

– Jim Cummins