There once was a horse-riding chap
Who took a trip in a cold snap
He stopped in the snow
But he soon had to go:
He was miles away from a nap. —Lore Sjöberg —Famous Poems Rewritten as Limericks (Bad Gods)
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Thanks, Anonymous. My favorite so far from the Metafilter list:
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The Metafilter Posse made a bunch of their own. Some are quite good.
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COOL! Great find…might even show this to the poetry writing class next term. I hadn’t seen Bad Gods before, but I believe that is the same writer who did the Brunching Shuttlecocks long ago… right on, DJG!