Thread: Rhymed Repartee
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Unread 01-13-2002, 07:25 AM
Roger Slater Roger Slater is offline
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Your limericks, fine to inspect,
though metrical have one defect:
a limerick must
involve sex and lust.
The clean ones most readers reject.

You just cannot buck this tradition,
regardless how noble your mission.
No, you can't duck it.
That girl from Nantucket
is a limerick's true precondition.
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