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Some Limericks

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"Hey, the door is wide open!" she said
To her lover next to her in bed.
"If my husband discovers
You under my covers,
He'll detach your neck from your head."

There once was a man named Raheem
Who had all his traits more than it seemed.
He was dumber, and meaner,
And more of a wiener
Than his comrades would have esteemed.

A black-jacket ruffian named Scottie
Referred to the toilet as "potty"
I think we all did
The same thing, as a kid,
But to grow up by now, I think ought ¥e.

A man named Raoul from Brazil
Took a long-lasting ecstasy pill.
He told all his confessions,
Gave away his possessions,
And they say that he feels that way still.

A woman who liked to ride bikes
Hit a dog on the road and yelled, "Yikes!"
She then gave it a bone,
Picked it up, took it home,
And then tortured its butthole with spikes.

The freewheeling playboy from Denver
Had a fetish for cars being dismembered.
So before he would hump her
She'd don a rear bumper,
And then shouting "Vroom! Vroom!" he'd back-end her.

Oh the young girls in Woodward tonight
I think wouldn't be sleeping so tight,
If any of them knew
All the things I could do
With a girl, and a hose, and a light.
(I could sure as hell make the sun shile where it hasn't before, but I think a halogen light would be the best way to do that. Unfortunately, the meter does not allow for elaboration in the nature of the luminary device involved.)

For me limerick writing is easy,
The lines flow out lucid and breezy.
But I must stay alert,
And attempt to avert
Any words that might sound sorta' cheezy.

A Chicagoan Student named Guy
Sprouted wings, and then learned how to fly.
He exerted this power
Far above the Sears Tower,
'Til he fell, thus impaling his eye.

It's now nearing time that I started
Off to class for a French test....reeeeeaaal hard!!
These French 1 tests are cheezy...
They're totally easy...
What do they think, we're retarded?

The lecherous baboon named Lloyd
Is a menace and should be destroyed.
If I'd yanked out my knife
And then ended Lloyd's life,
It would have been a moment enjoyed.

My Pschitt soda can sit here in front-a-me,
When I first see da brand name it stun-a-me.
And without second glance,
Sent the can home from France,
And this just might have hurt our ecunomy.

Said a chinaman speaking in pigeon,
"Me know much about Clistian Lerigion.
It seem vely oplessive,
As werr as obsessive,
And Bible is litten by Gideon.

My cooking ability, my love,
Is at a level which yours is above.
BUT...I'm sure with your help,
Dinner won't taste like kelp,
And to touch it won't require gloves.

Three darling young puppies are strangled,
De-clawed, gutted, slashed up and mangled.
While their meat slowly cooks,
From the ceiling on hooks
Their intestinal entrails are dangled.

"Well, no wonder your side hurts, you dummy,"
Said the doctor, "You've holes in your tummy!
"The gunpowder has fused
With the blood you have losed,
And the bullet holes now are all scummy."

That poor unctious popinjay, Dave
Is a weenie, a card, and a knave.
And his idea of fun
Involves girls ten years young,
So the state keeps him locked in a cave.

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Prig neolphintine sprechers entaeshus
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But the stains that it leaves are hellaceous.

At rush hour, a man in Manhattan
Thought he'd teach the log-jammed drivers Latin.
He stood in the street
And said, "Now, please repeat:
'Hic, haec, hoc; hic haec...'" Then he was flattened.
(By a truck whose driver knew nothing of higher education)

"I agree that it's good that you socked her,
And that then in the pantry you locked her.
For the food there will hold
'Til she's back in control,
And if not, then she dies," said the doctor.

The baloney man, hawking his wares,
Drowned out other folks trying to sell theirs.
All together they got
To discuss a boycott,
But instead beat him senseless with chairs.

Said the ugly man living in Trenton,
"It is only right that I should mention,
Beauty's only skin deep...
plus, a my paycheck's too cheap
For a facelift, my long-held intention."

A typically crazed T.V. minister
Shot a gun at a nun trying to finish her.
But from then on 'twas fettered
By wearing a letter
Bright red on his chest: S for Sinister.

A typically crazed T.V. minister
Shot a gun at a nun trying to finish her.
Tossing her one hour later
In a pit full of 'gators,
And to show his repentance jumped in with her.

"The opening's filled,' said the boss
In a tone of voice tired and cross.
"Our employee so new
Is much more skilled then you,
So your lateness has caused me no loss."

The unthinking man from Seattle
Killed his horse, skinned it, and made a saddle.
But to obtain the hide,
He had destroyed his ride,
So he oft rode around on some cattle.

Jenny, Tim, Laurie, and me
Filled and kept uncapped four jars of pee.
But the jars held such stink
That we four had to drink
the jars, which made us quite unhappy.

So important her nose tip to her,
That its highlighting she does deter.
"But highlighting pronounces,"
To her he announces,
"So your nose would look importanter!"

The relish that this hotdog sports
Looks like piles of green, moist, severed warts.
And this catsup-esque crud
Quite reminds me of blood.
People who like this also like sports.

Writing limericks can be quite tricky,
If your standards are fickle and picky.
For the metrical time
And the scheme of the rhyme
Are sometimes a real bitch to make match up.

As finals week quickly approaches,
All my work on my time quite encroaches.
It all seems sort of dumb,
Because After the bomb,
There won't be school at all, only roaches.

The nymphomaniacal hooker
Thought a passerby was quite a looker.
She offered her service,
But that made him nervous:
He ran to a cop and said, "book her!"

When sunlight is packaged as powder,
And the din of the silence grows louder,
I shall that day confine
My diet to wine,
With occasional treats of squid chowder.

There once was a man from Malaysia
who travelled to Thailand occasia-
Nally. Often enough,
That he brought back some stuff.
And he now says, "drug dealing sure pays ya'."

All the thin hungry folks in Sudan
Eat as often and much as they can.
O my heart is so rent
That this morning I sent
Them some cigarettes, whiskey, and spam.

Oh, that Sweet Valley HighÅ were not fiction!
For 'twould be an experience enrichen'
To take one of those teens
From her home-secure scene,
And then flay her beyond recognition.

Oh, the worst type of weather I know
Is that white fluffy hell known as snow.
I have hated November
Since I can remember,
For it's then that the cold breezes blow.

If humans had never evolved,
A number of things would be solved.
It's because we are here
That our whole ecosphere
In the Earth's swift demise is involved.

If mankind had not been created,
All other beasts would be elated.
Because our subsistence
Curtails their existence,
We've killed them faster than they have mated.

Why so many people like history
Will to me always be a deep mystery.
For the books which are storing
It's knowledge are boring,
And to memory it's always resistory.

Why so many people like history
Will to me always be a deep mystery.
Turning thousands of pages
Describing the ages,
My hands and my mind end up blistery.

I'm glad I was not born a cow,
But Alas! I am quite unsure how
To thank mother nature
For the nomenclature
By which we are called human now.

Much religion is so tied to music
Like gospel-esque tunes, or soul blues-ic.
And if Black Satanism
Would count as religion,
Then thus bands like Black Sabbath use it.

There once was a man from Kabul
Who could not afford a swimming pool.
So he went to a show
At the Porn-a-Go-Go,
Where he waded hip-deep in his drool.


Some Other Stuff

The warm and open sky
The caressing of the wind
I grab and hug you tightly
Gripping just below your chin.

I feel your throat give way.
I hear a whistling wheezing sound
Your body slips between my hands
And falls onto the ground.

I lie down next to you.
I gently stroke your hair.
I whisper tender whispers
To remind you that I care.

Your windpipe clogged with blood.
You gasp through tiny bubbles.
For a moment I am sorry
To have caused you so much trouble.

Then pressed against my own
I feel your body die.
I'm glad to share this moment with you
Out beneath the sky.

Since then until right now
I hold your warm corpse next to mine.
For love and death yield wondrous passion
When they are combined.


"...a field trip," Mrs. Reilly said.
"Tomorrow pack a lunch."
I felt an overwhelming dread,
A dark foreboding hunch.

Onto the bus all single file
With laughter shouts and cheer.
I try my best to force a smile.
My stomach twists in fear.

The ride is bumpy and remote.
It seems to last a week.
A tightness rises round my throat.
I cannot cry or speak.

The bus comes to a lurching halt,
A quiet eerie stillness.
My presence here is my own fault.
I could have feigned an illness.

Down from the bus the children get.
We follow to a field.
The air is cool but still I sweat.
My terror will not yield.

"Now gather round," Miss Reilly shouts,
"We're going to play a game."
I wonder at my early doubts:
Was all that fear in vain?

My perspiration chills as she
Produces a blindfold.
The teacher is my enemy.
She cannot be controlled.

"And now I need a volunteer."
I cower, bravery gone.
She points to me: "Come over here
And put this blindfold on."

I panic. Quick. No time for thought.
I'm sprinting. Fast. Away.
The trees. Protection. Don't get caught.
My instinct saves the day.

I hear my feet against the ground.
I hear my heart, my breath.
I hear the throbbing screaming sound
Of primal flight from death.

And now the sounds of other legs.
They're running after me.
They're hunters, I their chosen prey,
A grand conspiracy.

Dodge left. Now duck. The trees fly past.
The growing tribal noise
Of my pursuers, gaining fast.
Bloodthirsty girls and boys.

Over the hill, out of their sight,
a hollow tree awaits.
No time to pause, it's do-or-die.
It's this or fatal fate.

I edge between the rotting lips
The wormy wooden yawn.
The floor is soft, it cracks, I slip,
Deep in the trunk I'm drawn.

I see them from my hiding place.
I do not move or breathe.
They're circling, looking for a trace,
A trace I did not leave.

This tree whose walls around me loom,
My only place to hide,
Will ultimately be my tomb.
I cannot go outside.

And now trapped in this quiet black,
I live inside my head.
My lesson, I think, looking back,
Is learn to heed the dread.



To Be Sung By George Jones

My friend said, "She's disgusting, smelly breath and greasy hair,
And her grey saliva's full of germs, of which you should beware
Because with each new caustic word that comes out of her cancerous mouth
She sprays saliva all around the place."
But he was wrong.

For from the moment I first saw you, I knew you were meant for me
And that my friend's harsh warning must have been caused by insanity.
You were the lithest, lushest, beautifulest thing I'd ever seen,
And the girl with me said, "What a ghastly face!"
But she was wrong.

'Cause when we started going out, then I was floating on cloud 9.
I could simply not get over it, that you were really mine.
Although my friends stopped hanging out with me 'cause you were always there,
And they said your breath could kill a gnu.
But they were wrong.

For as the weeks flew by our love developed into something deep.
I would spend whole nights of wakefulness just gazing at you sleep.
And you returned my love with passion, kindness, warmth, and tender glee.
But when you said that I should marry you,
Then you were wrong.

'Cause at the moment you proposed to me my amour slipped away.
The cloak of nighttime passed, exposing in the light of day
That my friends had been right all along, and suddenly I knew
That I thought you were a beauty and a wit
And I was wrong.
And I thought you smelled like flowers not like shit
And I was wrong
And I thought my friends were acting out of spite
And I was wrong.
And I thought that they were dumb and you were bright
And I was wrong
And the instant you said "marriage" I could see
That I was wrong
And I'm so so glad that you proposed to me
'Cause I was so
so
so
so
wrong.

Now leave.


I want to stab, to feel the blood, all sticky warm and red.
I need to feel the blade slice through your flesh into the bed.
I see your organs, hear your screams they push me more and more.
I think that causing you this pain is all that I am for.

I don't want you to go on living such a happy life,
And so I schedule an appointment with you for my knife.
You've hurt me once too often, so I'm evening the score.
I think that causing you this pain is all that I am for.

How dare you be so nonchalant in all your selfish ways.
When you indulge your evil whims, just who do you think pays?
I want for you to suffer, agonizing evermore.
I think that causing you this pain is all that I am for.

But why should I be bother by inflicting all this pain?
I'd only waste my precious time with negligible gain.
I still want you to suffer, but to suffer on your own,
'Cause suffering's more painful when you suffer all alone.

I picture you contorting, twisting, writhing in your bed.
I picture you pathetic there, all wracked with guilt and dread.
Although I feel compassion, still your anguish I condone,
'Cause suffering's less painful when you know you're not alone.


Don't Go she cried
I must I lied
I can't stay any longer.

And since that night
I've felt alright
Each day I become stronger.

I have't thought
Of her a lot
In fact hardly at all.

And when I do
I don't want to
Even give her a call.

It's over now
I'm sure somehow
That all is for the best.

When she was there
I gasped for air
I had no room to rest.


The one old man just stands there, no idea of what to say.
The other fellow simply frowns, and turns, and walks away.


The cars screech to a blazing halt.
The smell of burning rubber.
A little boy out in the road.
The scared screams of the mother.

The boy is safe, the cars are stopped.
His mother cries with joy.
But then from down a cross street
Comes a car which kills the boy.

The mother shrieks, her tears renewed.
She runs to her dead son.
The driver nowhere to be seen,
A clean clear hit-and-run.

She holds his little body,
Broken, black, and red, and blue.
But then from out of nowhere
Comes the car, which kills her too.

The postscript to this fable,
Laid out plain for all to see,
Is that a traffic intersection
Is a stupid place to be.


A large nocturnal creature writhes deep down below the skin.
He wriggles in the pool of blood he chooses to live in.
He opens wide his clotty hairy large nocturnal jowels,
And shrieks a wail of strangely haunting darkly piercing howls.

They echo through the organs, rattle in the teeth and bones.
The lungs absorb some volume, changing screams to sombre moans.
The neck acts as a filter, tensing, soaking up the pain,
So scarcely any of the creature's howls gets to the brain.

The creature recognizes the predicament he's in.
He knows how deeply trapped he is deep down below the skin.
Each futile shriek more frustrating than that which came before it.
And each wail fully conscious that the brain will just ignore it.


The Ballad of Bessie

I once hit a cow near a small country town
And she shouted "Hey! Why do you b'lieve
That if I'm in the road I deserve being run down?
That's one of my biggest pet peeves."

I responded to her, "You're a cow, not a man
And you've wandered too far from your turf.
And besides if I want to kill you then I can...
Species-wise, I'm a lord. You're a serf."

"I resent that," she mooed. "I think cows deserve some
Credit that you're not too wont to share.
You humans spend your lives as though you were dumb
Without giving others a care.

"You also eat meat, from cows just as myself.
You consume fellow animals outright.
You're nonpeaceful , you kill trees to shelter yourself,
And you sleep on dead goose feathers at night."

I then told the cow, "What you say is quite true,
But what's wrong with carnivorous consumption?
You're bleeding to death, and I'll shortly eat you.
In your honor I'll have a big luncheon."

The cow said, "Alas! You're inhuman, you're dumb!
All you humans seem to me that way.
Eventually I hope that you'll see what you've done
And start eating each other someday.

"But I'm powerless now to reverse my sad fate
For your cruelty quite renders me weak.
And within days I shall be ground up, turned to steak,
That's my penalty for being meek.

"SO GOOD-BYE WORLD!" she mooed, "It's high time that I left,
'Cause this car rammed its grill up my ass.
But remember," she said, "you'll be eating my flesh,
But all I ever ate was some grass."


Ode to a Jelly Donut

Oh, most brilliantly blistering corpuscle of grain paste and sucrose on inside and out,
With a hint of your innards poking through both your outards through your umbilical belly-button spout.
Which when squozen your less viscous portions burst forth on my shirt or my pants or the floor,
How I wish rather than sugar you contained CHILI, beans, beef, and hot spices galore!!