The artist named Vincent van Gogh
could not sell his paintings for dough
They deemed his work bad
and then he went mad
And to him a debt we all owe
Top: Van Gogh's Starry Night (1889); Above: Kirk Douglas
as Van Gogh in Lust For Life (Vincente Minnelli, 1956)
It's pronounced "Van GOCH"; didn't you see "Manhattan"? (Also see www.vggallery.com/misc/pronunciation.htm) I think this calls for a rewrite with an entirely new rhyme scheme.
ReplyDeleteA rhyme scheming stickler, I see
ReplyDeleteA critic that bickers is he
With license poetic
I find him pathetic
For never a nitpicker be
What rhymes with Van Goch?
ReplyDeleteAs pastor he tried leading flock
then donned a beret and a smock
His sanity veered
an earlobe he sheared
and shot himself down with a Glock