I’m feeling a little calmer and relaxed after resolving all of my recent computer woes. What better way to begin another week than with a few limericks from one of my favorite limerick writers, John Ciardi. He was renowned far and wide for his limerick wars with Isaac Azimov. Enjoy some of his work.

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There was a young lady who wouldn’t

Her mother had told her she shouldn’t.

When dear mama died

She felt free. So she tried,

But by then she was so old she couldn’t.

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Cleopatra, when sex was new to her,

Kept buying up young slaves to tutor her.

But the Pharoah (her dad),

For fear she’d go bad,

Kept rendering them neuterer neuterer.

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A fallen young lady of fashion

Gave vents to all sorts of base passion.

Was she scorned? She was not,

For her ways brought a lot

Of highly respectable cash in.

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An insomniac young fellow named Hatches

Took a room in a whorehouse in Natchez.

He still tossed and turned

Half the night, but he learned

How to manage by sleeping in snatches.

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SPECIAL THANKS TO JOHN CIARDI