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Book Club Rhymes - 2006 edition

The 2006 edition breathed a bit of life into this event: with very little notice, several members rose to the occasion and came up with the following specimens — including some very creative interpretations of the haiku and limerick forms...

My Family and Other Animals (Gerald Durrell)
 

While reading Durrell one day
My wife was compelled to say
"This spoiled British twit
Is a bit of a shit.
Those animals had best stay away!" - Fred

So What (John Szwed)
 

John Szwed wrote the book Kind of Blue [sic]
About a famous trumpeter who blew
Third stream and bebop,
Cool, abstract & hard bop,
And invented jazz fusion too! - Nou

Justine (Lawrence Durrell)
 

Take a nymphomaniac named Justine
Who has sympathies pro-Palestine;
Distill a sextet
Down to a quartet
Depicting life Alexandrine. - Jean and Michael

The Magus (John Fowles)
 

A tome called The Magus was Fowle
There were too many self-absorbed twits
Where the protag was smitten
His interest was bitten
But ours came apart in the bits. - Sarah

Lizards, turtles, Greeks
Dig deeply English chaos
Fiery sun dingy - Sarah

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