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Limericks
The limerick was the verse form I started out writing in 2013 and since then I’ve written a ton of these five-line rhymes. Here’s some of my favourites.
Written in April 2013 upon the demise of Some Old Woman
Classic novels summarised as limericks
All sorts, mostly written in 2015
limericks in action
When I started performing at open mic I quickly figured out that there were some male poets who liked to use up a lot of oxygen out-performing quieter speakers. If I spotted any of these Usual Suspects on the set list I would start with this:
Spoken Word Limerick
Masculinity’s threatened sometimes,
The response? To defend paradigms:
But what won’t come between us
Is the size of your penis,
And that’s ’cause I’m here for the rhymes.
Meanwhile on Facebook there were some distinctly average limericks in the Ultimate Limerick Group and I was getting bored of weak rhymers using vulgarity for cheap clicks. I seem to remember I got into a rhyming spat with one of them, which produced this:
Ultimate Limerick
What marks us as rogue or conventional,
Is if errors are slack or intentional,
So while pushing the scansion
As far as you can, shun
The soulless, and veil the unmentionable.
It’s just occurred to me that these two verses summarise my mission statement for performing and writing rhymes. Cool.
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