I say pop goes the easel

These words by no means weasel

Pop took an Ad and made it bad

A comment on the life we had

Roy Lichtenstien at work by nine

Was no mean slouch I think you’ll find

He painted spots called bende’ dots

The rest was all black lines or not

Duchamp before had made it cool

Placing a bike wheel on a stool

He called it art and jokes apart

His signed urinal was the start

Warhol he painted with a mop

His only vice, he couldn’t stop

His subject stars and pink crashed cars

For Andy stars were just a job

I quite adored James Rosenquist

His style was slick, his paint quite pissed

Painted ‘I love you with my Ford’

The innuendo overlord

Hamilton’s a star of our great shores

Taught Brian Ferry art and more

Famed not just for his alliances

But for painting everyday appliances

Peter Blake was not so large

His stature not his reportage

With collage and his postcard hu-mor

No way he could have used his glue more

Hockney brushed the usual way

In Bradford, London and LA

Both painting swimming pools and boys

Some say he brushed both ways - of course!

Eves Kline, Eves Kline, Eves Kline, Eves Klien

Renowned for Eves Klien Blue -  Eves Klien

Forgotten the next line, Eves Klien

Can’t make this rhyme, Eves Klien, Eves Klien

Well now I must put down my brushes

Look back, observe and burn the rushes

My ode to Pop Art’s now departed

Not so sure I should have ever started

Richard Lee  Dec 2008