3/5/18 – Hendricks

Christina Hendricks
Was taught some unconventional magic tricks.
Like,
How to win every game of Poo sticks,
And how to make an ice cream have unlimited licks.
She learned how to pick a lock using two chopsticks
And how to fly to Spain riding six toothpicks.
But the best trick of all,
Learned by The Amazing Hendricks,
Was how to nibble off the chocolate –
Without disturbing the caramel –
Of a Twix.

© Carl Burkitt 2018

1/5/18 – Anderson

Wes Anderson
Turned into stop motion animation.
His life felt slower, clunkier,
And way more frustrating.
Everything took hours,
Even a 10 minute meeting.
Christmas took longer to arrive each year
And barmen took weeks pouring a beer.
Wes was so sad in that scary slow place
But it took one month for a tear to roll down his face.

© Carl Burkitt 2018

30/4/18 – Dunst

Kirsten Dunst
Spent all her Bunse
On an overly lavish
Disgusting brunch.
Liquid prawns
On Monster Munch
With sour snails
For extra crunch.
She gobbled it down
‘Til way after lunch
And then was sick,
Obviously.

© Carl Burkitt 2018

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