A sonnet on Sakman Rusgdie in preparation for a review of his memoir on his recent stabbing by a fatwa guy,

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Tumbling like loose pocket change from the sunni sky,

passengers fell, bewildered beasts, except for smartass,

who cracked gallows grizzlies, his face a smirking pie,

as if death, the clown, had thrown it, physical jazz.

Well, if some crazy koran cracker wants to bomb

a jetliner chock full of sheepish western grins,

for reasons only god knows, do it with aplomb,

class-clown seemed to say, laughing at his unwashed sins.

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When the wry blasphemer got stabbed and stabbed on stage,

it was funny, as funny as fatwas can get,

Archie served a healthy dose of comeuppance rage,

like an episode filmed on Larry David's set.

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How long will Salman Rushdie look like Bill the Cat?

And how much longer will he have to chew the fat?

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Authors Bio:

John Kendall Hawkins is an American ex-pat freelance journalist and poet currently residing in Oceania.