Uruguay is Acting like Fauna!

July 2nd, 2010

Call them the “dark horse” if you wanna,
As for me I am rooting for Ghana,
In this conflagration,
This last ‘frican nation…
Is gonna give Uruguay trauma!

Nothing to Sneeze At

June 6th, 2010

Perhaps you could pass me the kleenex,
But not due to my need for clean specs,
They are needed for fears,
And mopping up tears,
Finding out we are LAST on the “greendex.”

Honesty

June 5th, 2010

I know you may find it distressing;
The silence this blog’s been expressing,
With the spill uncontained,
Making jokes has been pained,
I find it all too damn depressing.

Blecch!

June 4th, 2010

How PR can become a train wreck,
Now Macdonald’s can pick up the check:
Instead of saying “yum” -
Folks found cadmium,
In glasses adornéd with Shrek.

Frivolity

June 3rd, 2010

A limerick for Larry Craig:
The Daily Show needed to beg,
To get him on air.
We saw, I could swear,
John Oliver pulling his… leg!

Take That!

June 2nd, 2010

The Kentucky Senate, with authority,
Passed with much more than majority,
A bill ‘gainst Rand Paul –
That ironically called –
Out his views as part of a “minority!”

You’ll never believe this. Work… yes actual employment, has re-entered my life and quite simply got in the way of keeping on track. I realize 7 days have passed between the June 1 entry and this one for June 2. As in the past, I shall make up this gap by leaps and bounds. Thank you for your patience, humble readers.

A word about how to read my limericks: If I end a phrase with a dash (“-”) it means that the line is meant to be read as if it were attached to the next line. Normally, for instance, there is a pause between lines in a limerick. When I use a comma at the end of a line, one should allow for the rhythmic rest, as it were. With a dash, the first syllable of the next line takes the place of that rhythmic pause. Try it out with the last three lines above — don’t take a breath and don’t “rest” or pause. You’ll see that the rhythm picks up speed and drives towards the final line.

Remember

June 1st, 2010

Right now we are all being schooled:
Government is just big oil’s tool…
But let us recall,
As disaster enthralls,
Which party most loosened the rules!

Aw Sh*t

May 31st, 2010

Just when you called the gulf a hearse,
With BP collectively cursed,
Some scientists reason,
That hurricane season,
Most likely makes tragedy worse.

Fluff

May 30th, 2010

I find it much more than a pity,
And truly not very much witty,
But I report with glee:
Reviewers agree:
Sex should have stayed right in the city!

This is Growing Old

May 29th, 2010

In humanity’s lust for “black gold,”
We forget that we’re being sold,
The true cost is hid,
Of life we’ll be rid,
And disaster’s a bitch to behold.

All Comparisons Inside

May 28th, 2010

Unlike Exxon BP folks weren’t drunk-caught.
The size of their leak still debunked lots.
But I have to proclaim,
There’s no more fitting name –
For all efforts to stop it than “junk shot.”

Stopped Thrill

May 27th, 2010

The “top-kill” attempt so far working,
Suppose that means I should stop smirking,
But why not tried first?
Likely earnings gone burst?
Or was it collective chain-jerking?

The Toiling of the Bell

May 26th, 2010

Is your blood beginning to boil?
As leak-stopping tries have been foiled?
The real culprit here,
For those who can hear:
We must break addiction to oil!

Cloud 9-11 Lifting?

May 25th, 2010

Their patriotic fervor ebbin‘,
GOP dough’s lost it’s leaven,
So screw first responders,
As senators pondered,
Seems they’re finally over nine-’leven.