Lickmout Lou Died Too

Like Bajans at home and Bajans overseas

I will treasure the colorful memories

Cherish the writings of this literary great

Keep aware of language she said, so many desecrate

My thoughts are for journalists, broadcasters and reporters too

Orator geniuses and any acting guru

Undiscovered writers who looked up to her

The lasses who learnt etiquette and lads who’d concur 

Lord, I gave my sympathy to her friends and family

Only, they are my neighbors, but they don’t know me

Unfeigned feelings to them, for we all shared

Drama in her works and we mutually cared

I believe we are the better to have known Mrs. Layne-Clark 

Enriched by her abilities and bolder of heart

Deliberately she would criticize if some would slip

This Island is much better off for her literary whip

One farewell to Jeanette Layne-Clark, I bid her adieu

Only, I extend another, for Lickmout Lou died too