Two
near-Wilsons.
"Invented
by Herbert Wilson (1817-88), a Wilson is a poem of five lines, each of which
must rhyme with the first line, except for the third which must contain a
non-rhyming reference to a vegetable." –Ian McMillan.
Shy Brian
sang of sand and surf and sun,
of Hondas,
tans, bikinis, endless fun
in
temperatures to bake the biggest spud.
Alas, the
good vibrations soon gave out
and Smile
(his almost-album) came to nowt.
B.J.
played drums on ‘Whiter Shade of Pale’,
in which
the Miller maundered through his Tale
(with
scarce a nod to cabbages and kings).
They
never replicated that success:
their
star was blighted, as with Hardy’s Tess
(Too much
fandango-skipping, is my guess).
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