The Limerick Page

Mike Cope

It was in your manifesto.
(I don't go along with you, though)
Start each line with a cap -
You'll make any old crap
Seem like verse (to those who don't know.)

Roy Blumenthal

I had thought that indents also
Sometimes help the tormentedly slow
   People who expect rules
   In verse; alas, they're fools,
But only to those of us in the know

Mike Cope

A statesmanly woman called Hillary
said: "I'm pissed off with your peccadillory!
All this billin' and cooin'
with Monica Lewin-
sky's givin' me terrible billary."

Roy Blumenthal

A president man quite unsemenly
responded to lover-ly Hillary:
   "You're still quite a babe,
   even with your tirades,
and I'm turned on right now -- you're thrillin' me!"

Mike Cope

Slick Willy'd have had far less strife
If really turned on by his wife:
If he'd kept his cigars
for puffing in bars
he'd have had a less troubling life.

and

There was a free-verse poet called Roy
whose Limerick didn't actually quite scan.
  When told this was so
  he replied, 'I don't care!
The damn thing hardly rhymes either!'