Tuesday, 15 February 2011

An Horatian Ode upon Ms Tara Palmer-Tomkinson's nose















I want a new nose for the Royal wedding says ex-coke addict Tara Palmer-Tomkinson

By SARA NATHAN and BEN TODD
Mail Online. Last updated at 12:01 PM on 24th February 2011

NB: with thanks to my hero, Andrew Marvell, master of the tetrameter

It is a mess for all to too see
Your ruined nasal cavity
Your hope the tragedy
Of plastic surgery

Barely knowing where you were
You giggled in Frank Skinner's chair
Blinded by your need
You thought he was Mike Reid

You fled the paps from bar to bar
And flashed your thighs leaving your car
But your exotic pose
Was outshone by your nose

Too much charlie hoovered up it
Floppy like a finger puppet –
The septum burned away
From your five grams a day

To enjoy a flower's scent
Is a kind of sacrament
But your organ of smell
Is trashed; it's gone to hell

Like Westbrook, the celebrity
There is a hole where yours should be
You're pictured in Hello
A casualty of snow







2 comments:

Sarah M Crouch said...

Ah this did make me chuckle in a dark way...superb

willh said...

Thanks Sarah, I'm loving dipping into that Stepen Fry book. It's so usefel