poeM oF thE daY

Jesus didn't do it.
William Shakespeare didn't do it.
(And neither did Edward de Vere.)
Mahatma Gandhi did it, but neither JFK, RFK, or MLK did.
And they say that Socrates did it, but that's just a guess.
James Dean didn't do it, Jimi Hendrix didn't do it, 
John Lennon didn't do it, Marvin Gaye didn't do it.
Hank Williams, Elvis Presley, Bruce Lee, Charlie Parker, John   
     Coltrane, Anne Frank, Marilyn Monroe, George Gershwin,      
     Frederic Chopin, Franz Schubert, Rudolph Valentino, 
     Eva Peron, Tutankhamum, John Keats, Alexander the Great . . .
None of them did it.
Nor Sid Vicious, either, though that wasn't a surprise to anyone.
Vincent van Gogh, Mario Lanza, Amelia Earhart, Che Guevara,
     Christopher Marlowe, Glenn Miller, Raphael, Judy Garland, 
     Steve McQueen, Jayne Mansfield, Jane Austen, Oscar Wilde,     
     George Orwell, Wolfgang Mozart, Lenny Bruce, Errol Flynn, 
     Nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, nope,  
     nope, nope, nope, nope, nope, and nope.
And Clarence Kalb didn't do it, either.
Not a single one of them lived to see 60.
Damn.

Oh, yeah . . . Yuri Gagarin didn't do it, either.