24/4/18 – Streisand

Barbara Streisand
Found a hand
Just lying on her drive.

She screamed:
“Oh shit, who’s hand is this,
And are they still alive?!”

“Oh well,” she said
And picked it up.
“That takes my collection to five.”

© Carl Burkitt 2018

This poem is part of a challenge for National Poetry Writing Month 2018 – a daily poem for a celebrity’s birthday.

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