Second line has six?
Stickling nitpicker stickles
While wondrous world burns
While wondrous world burns
We must maintain strict order
In our haiku club
In our haiku club
Too many syllamables
Will ruin our day
Will, ruin our day?
No, he’s much too nice a guy.
Three big cheers for Will!
Three big cheers for Will
and Dick but most chiefly for
King Charlie the Third
King Charlie, the third
Donut was a bit much, no?
Watch that royal waist
Watch that royal waist?
I prefer the beauty queen
with forty-inch hips.
With forty-inch hips
you are too stunned to reply.
Cope with thirty-nine?
Cope with “'39”?
Of course! It’s one of Queen’s most
Underrated songs.
Under-rated songs?
Click on this YouTube right now!
It bewitches me.
It bewitches me.
Just love that scary-ass clown;
might move to Derry!
Might move to Derry.
But maybe not! Have you seen
the brand new series?
It’s on HBO Max. Pretty gruesome! But almost comics-like.
The Brand new series
is great - Russell’s best work yet!
Or so he tells me.
Or, so he tells me,
I can get off the, you know,
Porcelain king-seat.
Porcelain king-seat
For when you feel the need to
Do a royal flush
Do a royal flush
if His Majesty lets you
sit upon his throne
“Sit upon his throne!”
– But I am naked of clothes.
“So’s His Majesty.”
So’s His Majesty
Ordering fast food? Perhaps
A Royale with Cheese?
A Royale with Cheese:
the burger that hitmen love.
By me? Not so much.
Buy me? Not so much:
A jug of wine, loaf of bread,
Especially Thou.