Dearest Frank, look at what you have done
With this prompt you’ve just stolen my lunch
I am now out of time
Gotta use sloppy rhymes
Even though ’tis a mess like that … Trump
Colin Lee
Note: My first take on a limerick. The pesky metre and tricky rhymes are beyond what I initally expected for a lunch-break poem. All thanks (and blames!) to our dear Frank who prompted us in dVerse’s Form for All: Limericks.
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The Pescetarian Poet 
Now that was very funny. I could see you in your cafeteria writing this out, or at your desk eating a sandwich while others wondered, “What is that fellah, doing?” To which semi-allies replied, “Oh that is just Colin – eatin’ too much fish and thinkin’ physics will do that to ya. He’s OK.”
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Thanks, Sabio. Clairvoyantly precise for the most part, save, as an expat in China during the week, it was (vegetarian) dumplings, not sandwich. 🙂
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You bartered for baozi that day
after coming in from the rain
no meat? I can!
Are you a Laozi fan?
Said the cook, serving you sweet fengshui.
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“Chef,” said I, “easy on that bak choy.
If you will, add in some bits of soy.
Guess I don’t want no bao
Lest my hair fall like Mao’s
And my Dad think I’m one commie boy.”
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The funniest thing writing a limerick at lunch has to be when you have to write it out loud.
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I made sure all my English-speaking colleagues were out for lunch when I started — the rest should think I was in a phone conference!
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The slant rhymes helped to make the “Trump” ending unexpected. This was your first limerick? The hardest part for most people, in my experience, is following a meter and your meter was perfect. Nice one!
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Beginner’s luck, I’d say. Thank you for introducing this form, Frank. I had loads of fun with it. Just did another one on this comment section.
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Any limerick that slams the Cheeto-In-Chief is an instant classic in my book, sloppy rhymes or not!
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Thanks, Barry! Got plenty of materials these days … Putin, Xi, Duterte, Le Pen, Kim … Whether left or right, they all do or say very funny things, yet none of them has any sense of humour.
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