Dead and gone and this is how we remember you

Another talk.bizarre tradition is the memorial haiku, posted when one first hears the news of a celebrity's death. I am missing a huge number of these from the early days, unfortunately.

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Peter Cook (13 Jan 1995)

Bedazzled, I am.

Best devil there ever was

gone to his reward.

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Princess Di (2 Sept 1997)

Drunken idiot

Fleeing from the cameras.

Burning Man, not Di.

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Pol Pot (20 Apr 1998)

The lucky old man

dies peacefully, in his sleep,

unlike his victims.

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Alan Shepard (23 July 1998)

I say in passing

Our first astronaut has died.

"Really? John Glenn's gone?"

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Mel Torme (10 Jun 1999)

Be bop ba do dah

Doo-dee dim da-doo zih-zah

Boodly bo bye-bye.

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DeForest Kelley (14 Jun 1999)

#1

Deforrest Kelley

was a doctor, dammit, Jim.

Even Vulcans weep.

#2

No fucking way, man!

He was on, like, "Bonanza"

and... "Gunsmoke"... I think.

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Terence McKenna (4 Apr 2000)

Timewave collapses

A personal eschaton

To go scout ahead