HW:Nik Turner limericks

[Nick Medford]

In message <200102072030.PAA27138 at listserv.spc.edu>, Douglas Pearson
<ceres at SIRIUS.COM> writes
>Well, the Hawkwind limerick competition was for real; it ran in Brian
>Tawn's Hawkfan sometime in the early 80's.  The winning entry (IIRC) went
>something like:
>
>I went to the concert at Brum [1]
>Delighted that Hawkwind had come
>But at the end of the night
>I was given a fright
>By the crazy, bald, sax player's bum [2]
>
>[1] That's Birmingham, right?
>[2] Referring, of course, to Nik's penchant for getting nekkid back in
>those days.
>

Based on my own memories of being exposed to this hideous sight:

There once was a gangling flautist,
Of the Hawks, he was hardly the shortest.
This crazy old dude
Looked rough in the nude
As his buttocks- well, they weren't the tautest.

--
Nick Medford