Funny Poems of Fame and Fortune

A collection on Max Scratchmann's funny poems about famous people and the pursuit of fame and fortune.

Making Cocoa for Wendy Cope

A funny poem about an fantasy encounter with the poet Wendy Cope. Be warned, it's about much more than just making cocoa.

A Star Is Born

Hollywood beckons as a family set of in search of stardom in the city of the silver screen.

Prime Suspect

A funny poem about the sleuth studded world of detective fiction.

Trekkies

A funny poem about Star Trek, which will mean a great deal more to some than to others.

Cadenza in Chrome Yellow

The poem is subtitled Being a Nonsense Biography of Oliver Goldsmith, which will see you either racing to read the poem or scrabbling for Wikipedia to find out WTF is Oliver Goldsmith and WTF is going on.

Graceland Lullaby

An Elvis themed poem which is interwoven with the titles of his songs.

Norman Rockwell at the Guggenheim

This poem about contemporary art could equally well have been classified with the humorous hate poems or the special collection reserved for poems containing possibly the most offensive word in the English language. Never apologise and never explain.

Ode to Doris Day

Max's Ode to Doris Day is exactly as described on the tin.