“The Swell Parodies We See”

Ev’ry time to AmIRight I come cruisin’
I could die of sheer laugh-fatigue,
Parodists I find here are so amusin’!
How I wish I were in a league
With Alvin Rhodes who's like clockwork creatin’
Those rib-ticklin’ rhymes often spoofin’ Norman Bates an’
Merry/Pippin up-whippin’ then shippin’ humor-drippin’
Swell parodies to me.

Don’cha know that ev’ry time I arrive on
The “New Entries” page to check my score
I’m diverted by some new John Barry jive --
He’s always added three or four.
And you know I right away gotta go check
Out a new submission posted by M. Pal-OH-check
Guy DiRito’s always neat-o parodies are hard to beat, oh
Swell parodies they be!

Oh, when my patter lures any barrel-bottom scrapers
I feel as cool as Steve McQueen.
I’m a new guy in town
But I hope for renown, for it’s like a shot of pure caffeine --
Tasted, it’s so hard to wean.

How I wish that I when I send in a send-up,
Like the Boy who’s Invisible,
I could feel with confidence it should end up
Bein’ voted really risible!
Like Pat McWilliams who rates more than a chortle
And AirFarceOne, whose spoofs oft seem immortal,
I wanna own fives alone down in the comment zone
For swell parodies by me.

(musical interlude)

B.A.D. if I could I would copy:
Under av’rage yet above the mean.
Or maybe Red Ant, who is never, ever sloppy –
Rhymes and pacing are always clean.
But above all who I need to be hailing
Is host, ChuckyG., for this playground availing
And Stan Hall feels a call to scrawl “Thanks for all
The swell parodies I see.”

We are all so lucky ChuckyG spends the money for the swell parodies we see.