(For those who don’t know, clerihews are named after Edmund Clerihew Bentley, a school-boy friend of Gilbert Chesterton. Sitting next to Chesterton one day in a dull Chemistry class, he picked up his pen and in an inspired moment wrote these lines: ‘Sir Humphrey Davy/ detested gravy./ He lived in the odium/ of having discovered sodium’. Thus was born a new literary genre.)
JP II
We (with hindsight) love you.
You knew that a wedding ring
Wasn’t a bit of bling.
Papa Ratzinger
Was fond of cats; linger
He didn’t, but made himself ex
In a manner that was bound to perplex.
Pope Jorge Bergoglio
Caused no small imbroglio.
Did he enter the Church to destroy ‘er?
And who exactly was his employer?
Advertisements
