Cromwell Bested Me

"Cromwell Bested Me" is a short poem by Karl Jones.

Cromwell Bested Me

Karl Jones

I have a certain fascination—morbid, I hope—with Oliver Cromwell.

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Of these, the vaster portion embraces mathematicians, scientists, scholars, philosophers — even theologians and economists are not exempted from service, when their lives and dogma can be brought to harness for my purposes.

Very, very few who lack all of the above qualities make it past my watchful vanity.

But I cannot evade the truth:

Cromwell bested me.

Moody Blues parody

Oliver Cromwell's dead

No, no no no, he's outside looking in

He'll fight but lose his head
Boiled in tar, keeps ravens fed
He remind use that he's dead

Oliver Cromwell ... Oliver Cromwell ...

Oliver Cromwell (song)

Commentary

You look nervous. Is it the warts and all?

From "If Cromwell Were the Joker" (a Heath Ledger Mystery)

Fiction cross-reference

• Gnomon algorithm
• Gnomon Chronicles
• If Cromwell Were the Joker
• Heath Ledger Mystery

Nonfiction cross-reference

• Oliver Cromwell (nonfiction)

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