First, these limericks are not jokes with punchlines. I have chosen this form of poetry for its efficiency. It is poetry – it has rhythm and rhyme. The creative effectiveness of the limerick is the setup and the last line. In five lines, it delivers a message and its brevity allows the author to semantically say more with less, which is my purpose here.
A Roe V Wade Limerick
A “Re-writing The Unreality TV Script” Limerick
Low approval ratings. That’s a surprise that President Trump didn’t see coming. How could he after he had such an impressive victory and crushed his opponent in the election, facts about the popular vote notwithstanding? Now his Unreality TV Presidency may be in jeopardy of being cancelled because the people who did not vote in the election and the educated middle class white women who did not want Hillary Clinton to be the first woman President are realizing what a terrible mistake they made. It was these two groups that turned the election and, hopefully, they will have the power to correct the mistake. Trump seems to have forgotten where babies come from and what the most powerful force on Earth is. You don’t mess with Mother Nature without severe consequences, which in this case will save America….And it led to this…..
A Couple of “A Little Pack of Rats vs. Legions Of Ferocious Felines” Limericks
They are messing with the wrong Super PAC. Just because many middle class educated women decided that Hillary Clinton was not whom they wanted to be the first woman President, that doesn’t mean that they are going to passively submit to having their reproductive health put in jeopardy by a bunch of dicks.