Clerihew Crazy

[Tzara]

How bizarre, a
poet Tzara
started this debate.
T'wasn't me mate.

Ah, sweet Tristesse!
Here is no mess
for a debate. I jest, of course. But wait!
Your footnote prompted that slough of wry reply, so late.

Just sayin' why, m'dear.

 

[GuiltyPleasure]

Anais Nin
wasn't in
I left a note
floating in her moat.

 

[clutching_calliope]

Nathiel Hawthorne
didn't mourn,
he just got better
by the letter.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

reviving a fine thread:

Toulouse Lautrec
often strained his neck
drawing eye-level nipples,
but his posters caused ripples.

Sir Richard Francis Burton
whose preferences were uncertain
in harems would land
to do research first-hand.

Jude the Obscure
was deep, sick and poor.
Though the book much annoyed-a,
I got schadenfreude.

 

[Tzara]

Toulouse Lautrec
often strained his neck
drawing eye-level nipples,
but his posters caused ripples.

Sir Richard Francis Burton
whose preferences were uncertain
in harems would land
to do research first-hand.

Jude the Obscure
was deep, sick and poor.
Though the book much annoyed-a,
I got schadenfreude.

All three of these are very fine, but that last one wins the Tzara Spits Diet Coke Out His Nose award for making me laugh so hard I just cleaned my sinus cavities with weak carbonic acid. God. That is so messy.

Now I have to try and come up with a clerihew that includes the word weltschmerz. I can only hope that Lauren does so first.

 

[Tzara]

Anna Kournikova,
hot babe whose tennis career is ovah,
or should be, gives my private parts hurts.
It's just a sex thing, people. Not like weltschmerz.




Best I could do on limited notice. Lauren, anyone, help me out. I'm dying here.

 

[Picodiribibi]

Nikola Tesla
worked hard to impress'ya
with electrical current and flux.
Died, penniless...that sucks.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

German, half a semester

Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
will never betray us with his art
Though his biography often hurts
His music often inspires weltschmertz.

 

[unpredictablebijou]

may need a clerihew intervention

Aleister Crowley
Styled himself holy
His press claimed he was the Great Beast
But he was mostly just an oversexed priest.

 

[Picodiribibi]

Mies van der Rohe
said "Less is Mo'."
A designer with moxie--
his buildings, all boxy.

 

[Tzara]

Mies van der Rohe
said "Less is Mo'."
A designer with moxie--
his buildings, all boxy.

Ha ha! Dead-on perfect. I was just in New York. The Chrysler Building kicks the Seagram Building's ass.

Or would, if buildings had asses.



Careful, though. You might make Lauren testy.

 

[Tzara]

Frank Lloyd Wright,
overconfident, did slight
the structural requirements for Fallingwater.
Now steel, not cantilevers, hold up 'er.

 

[Tzara]

Frank Gehry
is quite often scary
in his designs. He's also hip and deft and cool—
n.b.: Bilbao, the EMP. Wild metal: warped, wounded, tooled.






Yes, as a matter of tact, I am trying to draw Lauren out of her lair. I have no idea of her preferences or taste in architecture and her current AV is merely teasing and no help, as I don't recognize the structure. I am a psychology major, after all, albeit one with a fondness for engineering (family heritage) and a love of design. Yet am I old and testy and a complainer. Perhaps I should merely retire into Cylons.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Andō Tadao
is my sacred cow;
he's a master of light,
but it seems as if his use of cast-in-place concrete to every non-architect person in the world causes fright!

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Rem Koolhaas
is a Dutch that kicks aas;
he designed Casa da Música
and gets my raving critica.




Sorry, I'm still half asleep.

And Mies is cool, damn it.

 

[bogusbrig]

Le Corbusier
stated that buildings were machines
and now they land like spaceships on planets
alien, other worldly and somehow...wrong

 

[Tzara]

Rem Koolhaas
is a Dutch that kicks aas;
he designed Casa da Música
and gets my raving critica.

Rem Koolhaas
sometimes uses glaas
in structures with looks
like this one, where I pick up books.

Sorry, I'm still half asleep.

And Mies is cool, damn it.

Mies van der Rohe
built a house in Plano,
Illinois for Dr. Edith Farnsworth.
It's the perfect minimalist shrine/church.


Who said a box was bad?

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Frank Gehry
is quite often scary
in his designs. He's also hip and deft and cool—
n.b.: Bilbao, the EMP. Wild metal: warped, wounded, tooled.

Frank Gehry
builds structures quite airy;
attendees to his conference multiplied as spores
so we spilt into the airy and cold outdoors.

He autographed my poster, though.

 

[Picodiribibi]

Rem Koolhaas
is a Dutch that kicks aas;
he designed Casa da Música
and gets my raving critica.




Sorry, I'm still half asleep.

And Mies is cool, damn it.

Could a guy with a name like "Koolhaas" be anything but a kick-ass architect?
I think

Laurence Stern
wrote in Shandy, a germ
of an idea about a man's name:
Tristram's the worst, said the hero's dad--who called his son Tristram all the same.

( " -- and Nick, he said, was the DEVIL." )

And Mies is cool, damn it; it's just that, spending your undergrad years studying in the shoeboxes designed by him (or inspired by his designs), you get an intimate understanding of his genius (i.e., you get license to make fun )

 

[Lauren Hynde]

Le Corbusier
raises beaucoup d'hostilité
but without his Villa Savoye
you'd be an urban wolf-boy.

 

[Tzara]

Philip Johnson's
Glass House needs bounds of
heat
in wintertime, but that don't no matter none, 'cuz it's really neat.

 

[Tzara]

Marcel Breuer
designed more than the foyer
of the Whitney Museum of American Art.
His chairs were beautiful, elegant, and smart.

 

[LadynStFreknBed]

Vincent van Gogh
Cut off his ear, as you know
His vibrant colors and thick strokes
are lesser known to the folks.

 

[Lauren Hynde]

This one guy Álvaro Siza
among architects is kind a Caesar.
He designed my school,
So when he won the Pritzker, we all thought that was cool.


Fuck. I better go to bed.

 

[Tzara]

Steven Holl,
from Bremerton (way near me) got the call
to be an architect. He designs buildings spacious,
like the Chapel of St. Ignatius.



Lauren: You're young and you have the training. I am a fake, but a tenacious one. I think I can outlast you. I'll pull out Sir John Soames, if I have to. (That rhymes, by the way. Your turn.)