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Marion Shore!
If you write any more
puffy laughy Duffy clerihews
we’ll wrap you in yesterday’s news!!


(will that stop you?? )
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Marion Shore!
If you write any more
puffy laughy Duffy clerihews
we’ll wrap you in yesterday’s news!!


(will that stop you?? )
NEVER!
Cally Conan-Davies,
it's an illness as bad as rabies,
although perhaps in better times
she'll run out of Duffy rhymes,
and her mania will meet its death
but I wouldn't hold my breath.
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Carol Ann Duffy
was looking rather green as the sails got luffy.
Everyone hoped the voyage would be quick,
before she got sick.

Carol Ann Duffy
grew rather huffy
when a critic, probably on a bender,
maintained she was chosen laureate because of her gender.

Carol Ann Duffy
baked a soufflé that was light and puffy.
She said "Oh Hell"
when it fell.
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Carol Ann Duffy,
you’re allowed, you’re the laureate, to change enough to ‘enoughy’
thereby ensuring a certain lesser lyricist
further rhyming possibilities to prevent an occupational change to physicist.
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Incidentally, does anyone know how "Padel" is pronounced?
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At a party for Robert Conquest somebody told me it is pronounced as in padel your own canoe, something she might have considered. I THINK the somebody was James Fenton.

Ruth Padel,
Tall in the saddle,
Rode into Oxford Town
and shot mad, bad, womanising Walcott down.
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Derek Walcott
wasn’t at all what
poets expected
when his proclivities were detected.

Ruth Padel
was quick to skedaddle
when found to be sneaky,
subversive and leaky.

Derek Walcott,
like Louisa M. Alcott,
liked Little Women.
We won’t let him in.

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Ruth Padel
suffered brain addle
when her oar gut stuck
in muck.
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Incidentally, does anyone know how "Padel" is pronounced?
Ruth Padel,
pronounced like addle;
not 'Pay-del'
as in ladle,
and under no circumstances 'Padelle'
as in 'ma belle'.

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Default Padel and Duffy Strike Back

Ruth Padel
cried out 'Enough of this fiddle-faddle!
I and Ms. Duffy suggest your endless japes
are but the whine produced by sour grapes.
And at the risk of sounding like snobs:
Don't you guys have jobs?'
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