The Godfather (1972)
It’s business—never personal, of course
(Men must be free to earn their bread and butter)
When hatchet men decapitate your horse
And Don Corleone is gunned down in the gutter;
When Luca Brasi founders with the fishes;
And officer McCluskey ends up dead
(He and Solozzo, ordered pasta dishes,
Instead receiving servings of hot lead).
A business trip to Sicily ensuing,
Mike sees his blushing bride blown limb from limb
(He never noticed there was trouble brewing—
A car bomb that was meant to finish him.)
Tataglia and Barzini, too, must fall,
But it is only business after all.
Bob McKenty has finally achieved his life’s ambition: to write more Shakespearean sonnets than Shakespeare. Admittedly, Bob had twice as long to do it, and only a fraction of his have been published.