The T.S. Eliot Poem (The homeobox)
A Fishy Tale - each line has stage directions (to be read in the voice of: RIVO) . You can work out the tempo yourself.
RIVO
We will start with conkers, you must think me bonkers, ( Max Miller)
Oh not at all, I am very fond of the detail, as you know ( Noel Coward)

The memory of the stream, is naught but the dream of a trout, (Richard Burton)
Explicit sex is the implicit amplex - the very act on top of the very word (Sean Connery)

Like the repetition of the Fall, each time he reads page Three (Frankie Howerd)
I would prefer the poem not at all, to be pressurized by the past ( Sting)

Only the Pound of the Shaw, against the Kant of Shakespeare (Al Pacino)
The breaking of the law, the round of the unconventional list (Ian Paisley sans his politics)

Was I too cruel, to evoke the Sea, and like a Dane watch the TV (Sir Laurence Olivier)
As the channels of communication slush in the bottle of beer (W.C. Fields)

So the repeats commence, in come the old ladies from Elstree (Michael Caine)
studio, to do their bit behind the curtain, or the kid on the pier (Jude Law)

Sucking his lollipop, the stock vintage stuff found in poetry (Frank Sinatra)
Stabbed in the back, is the victim of the tongue, a Tom Dick n' arry, (Freddy Mercury)

Silly to think that I might apprise you of the facts of the birds & bees (Cary Grant)
Stilted like the cheese I give you as you download my file (Mae West)

So T.S. we will down the aisle , swing our incensed image (Woody Allen)
So collect the goodies, as long as we keep to the straight and farrow (Kurt Cobain)

So till our patch, pay our homage, write nothing that threatens (Winston Churchill)
Sir A, B, C, to N, to the root of the aristocrat, and land our page. (Noel Coward)