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Skinner's "Self-Made" rewritten as a limerick
I've been gone for many months and I am still recovering from the motorcycle accident that took the life of my daughter. My knees don't hurt as bad and the fog is lifting from my scrambled brain. Perhaps it is time I once again attempt to improve a Tuesday poem via the condensing wit of the limerick. Self-Made (as a Limerick) By NoStar As a ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on May 12, 2009
Jeffrey Skinner's Working? on the Railroad (as a limerick)
Goofing off is more like it, but then railroad unions created featherbedding. This isn't really a poem, just prose with oddly arranged spacing. It is written well enough to hold my attention, but I come here for poetry. Still I will not slack off on my self appointed mission: To demonstrate that any poem submitted by Pinsky can be improved ...
Posted to Poems by NoStar on June 12, 2007