Liz

Elizabeth Taylor up and died;
The papers call her “Liz.”
We mourn for what she used to be –
That’s just the way it is.

A beauty, once, with violet eyes;
A siren on the screen.
Yet as a kid, I’d hated her,
Deciding she was mean.

She’s stolen Eddie Fisher
Right from Debbie Reynold’s side;
And then when Richard Burton came,
She wasn’t satisfied.

So out the window Eddie went,
(He got what he deserved.)
And Liz and Richard koochie-kooed,
Which everyone observed.

Though even Burton didn’t last –
By then I didn’t care;
A Michael Jackson friendship
Later caught the network’s glare.

She made the front page of The Times
In death, more than in life;
A “Pinnacle of Glamour,” she was
Seven times a wife.

Your memories of Liz will be
Dependent on your age –
As actress, sexy movie star
Or activist – you gauge.

But as for me, she’ll always be
The one who played the part
Of the frightening seductress
Who broke Debbie Reynold’s heart.