Sonnet X (a parody of Shakespeare’s Sonnet XVIII, a tribute) - By Benjamin Goh

Shall I compare thee to a Hollywood celebrity?

Thou art more witty and more remarkable:

Rough winds do shake Natalie Portman’s wig in the city,

And Lady Gaga’s turned alien to make her songs marketable.

Sometime too little Victoria Beckham resembles human,

And seldom is Eva Longoria for Oscars nominat’d;

And every straight actress from straight sometime go lesbian,

By crook, or by oops to get their news disseminat’d:

But thy eternal Teachings shall not die

Nor lose possession of that truth thou sings;

Nor shall Time feign thy grandeur in the past doth lie,

When eternal triumphs to literature thou brings:

So long as Hollywood and politics worship the scatterbrained, and dogs can pee,

So long explicates this, and this steals an inexplicable (and forgiving) laugh from thee.