"Channeling Eric Needham"

by Dave Langford

New fans aspire with fierce desire

To be at last revered

And grow what marks true patriarchs:

A WIDNER'S WONDERFUL BEARD.

 

The UFOs, as we suppose,

Detect a shape from home.

Each awesome hull reflects his skull:

It's WIDNER'S WONDERFUL DOME.

 

The rhyme for Yhos is "gross" or "boss"

(I'd hoped for words obscene):

A feast of fun since '41

Is WIDNER'S WONDERFUL ZINE.

 

Clarence the angel said, "This change'll

Save Frank Capra's film from strife:

My slight but vital switch of title

From WIDNER'S WONDERFUL LIFE."

 

A trufan's heart's a work of Art,

As every faned learns ...

Without debate, he's earned at 80

Our WIDNER'S HAPPY RETURNS.


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