Blog challenge: write a clerihew where instead of a person, we put in "swine flu" or H1N1, if you can find a rhyme for that.
Class, get to work!
Tuesday, May 05, 2009
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Can the swine flu
ReplyDeletebeget a clerihew
which will lyrically
spread epidemically?
About flu du swine,
ReplyDeleteGovernments whine
Forcing prevention
By Intervention.
Herewith, my "Cleri-WHAT" (not a "Cleri-WHO", hee hee)
ReplyDeleteA biologist suffering from swine flu
Shrugged: "Such things are not new.
The fit survive - that's evolution;
If only my lab could evolve a solution."
The pity is that I've heard that some real biologists are actually waiting for the "INTERNET" to "evolve" solutions to their problems. Wow, talk about an utter failure of science; maybe they ought to invoke phlogiston or perhaps the theory of "humours"!!! I wonder if they think the lab "evolves" their glassware... Hee hee.
That pork chop that I ate
ReplyDeleteServes to inoculate
Me from this porcine flu.
Shouldn't you?
H1N1?
ReplyDeleteThe hype is gone
The fear of swine flu
Disappeared in the blue
About the Swine Flu
ReplyDeleteThere’s a hullabaloo
To avoid being stricken
Simply eat chicken
by Cheri Southward, traveling with us in Hawaii
Swine Flu!
ReplyDeleteLet’s sue!
Oh gee!
Big fee!
Swine Flu?
Politicians debut
Transport is forbidden
But Joe Biden has ridden
Swine Flew?
Who new
Common Please
Whirled Peas
What better to do than try to compose Clerihews while waiting to check out of our cottage and begin the return to Ohio?
Dr. Richard E. Besser
ReplyDeleteA pandemic assessor
Said of the Swine Flu
Try curing it with a Clerihew
While I may think there is no better way to spend our time waiting, my cottage mates are not so inclined, the swine!
Writing a clerihew
ReplyDeleteAbout the Swine Flu
Is much more easy
Than getting diseasy
I am getting sick
ReplyDeleteOf diseases, take your pick
That parley a simple ague
Into an enormous full-fledged plague
If you ask
ReplyDeleteWhy I wear a surgical mask
It's because of those damn
Sick ham.
-Chris Chan
"There's no threat from swine flu"
ReplyDeleteChipotle served pork, so it must be true.
Perhaps the secret that's really big
Is that swine flu DOESN"T COME FROM PIGS?
These are great, people! I love them. They have increased the entertainment value of the blog by 58% or more.
ReplyDeleteI think I should alert the editor of the magazine who hasn't chimed in here yet and may want these for magazine fodder.
Influenza A virus subtype H1N1
ReplyDeleteIs a danger to the world, about it something must be done
Slaughter all the pigs
Dine on twigs
The H1N1 virus
ReplyDeleteIs at least as old as Osiris,
But it's been as big as Plaxico,
Since the President went to Mexico.
What's all over the media
ReplyDeleteAnd on Wikipedia?
---That H1N1 swine flu.
Yet I haven't got it. Have you?
A backwards clerihew . . . for a backwards pandemic.
While attending class with Mr. Chu
ReplyDeleteI caught the disease they call Swine Flu
I packed my fevered brow with mud,
and coughed until I threw up blood.
I contracted swine flu
ReplyDeleteas a member of the crew
of the Princess Dawn.
Now I'm forlorn.
You guys are amazing! The swine flu chlerihews just keep coming.
ReplyDeleteWho would have guess they'd be so inspirational?
Swine flu you say?
ReplyDeleteWell there must be a way
So no one else will get it
Maybe there is a kit.