Quite brilliant, Brian, as usual. Never knew his real name was Dodgson!
William McGonagall’s application to succeed Alfred Lord Tennyson as poet laureate
And so the great and good Lord Tennyson is gone,
A subject that I very recently wrote a stirring eulogy upon.
And now a new poet laureate must be had
Even though Queen Victoria must still be a little bit sad.
Her Majesty must choose a poet who is equally at home
Writing a celebratory poem or a disaster poem,
Someone who can write poetry that is highly moral
That she can read at the fireside up in Balmoral.
It would need to be a poet who is quite prolific
and who the popular masses think is really terrific.
Of course, she may choose a learned man with a monocle
But she could do worse than hiring William Topaz McGonagall.
McGonagall, the people cry, would be the natural successor
To the now dead Lord Tennyson who would be his predecessor.
Last week, they said, he rose and wrote a poem before he ate
Which is a great talent in a prospective poet laureate.
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