At St Mary’s by Jan Moran Neil
Mary Berry is everywhere.
Wherever I go, Mary Berry is there.
She’s on the billboards and in the magazines
even in the news for the Church Diocese.
Mary Berry’s on ‘Who Do You Think You Are?’
and at seventy nine she is suddenly a star.
Mary Berry, Mary Berry, Mary Berry,
featured in the broadsheets with her autobiography,
Mary Berry is a ‘Recipe for Success’:
pure confection Mary Berry and sweetly nothing less.
It’s Mary Berry, Mary Berry wherever I may go:
Mary Berry is on Facebook, Twitter, radio.
Last Christmas I went to church and my daughter said, “Oh, look.
Look, Mum. There’s Merry Berry, that famous celebrity cook.”
And I am thinking as I am sitting in my pew,
Mary Berry should be canonized: she can have her cake and eat it too.