Dirty Limericks: Anonymous (Quirky Classics)

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I was prepared for Wendy Cope when she arrived in my adulthood, because in my elementary school days some literary sophisticates among my chums introduced me to Miss Susie, whose adventures can be found in nineteen variant episodes in Wikipedia. A young woman of questionable character but undeniable verve, Miss Susie got around, clearly. Wikipedia’s Michigan version, dated 1950s, differs slightly from the account I learned in Detroit a few years later, perhaps now set into type for the first time:

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This twenty-two-word poem by Megan Falley doesn’t play around. Falley describes the first sexual encounter between two lovers and a resulting realization.For sale: baby shoes, never worn.” It’s usually attributed—mistakenly, the evidence suggests—to Ernest Hemingway. Whoever it was who condensed it down to six words did something masterly; the little announcement speaks not merely of the heartbreak of an infant’s death but also of harrowing poverty and human resilience. The shoes weren’t buried with the child. They retained some minimal financial value, which couldn’t be overlooked; thoroughly downtrodden souls, even in the face of unspeakable tragedy, cannot afford to ignore the stringencies of the everyday. This poem was written by the English poet John Donne near the end of the 1500s. During this period, bawdy and dirty love poems were commonplace.

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I don’t know,” replies Paddy. “I haven’t found her head yet!” 6. The playboys – tally up Credit: Tourism Ireland Well, it’s certainly clear from these ten hilarious Irish dirty jokes that you can’t take things too seriously in Ireland, and you most definitely shouldn’t take any offence. You don’t have to be a recognized and revered poet to come up with dirty poems. Here are a few templates to follow to come up with your own creative verse. Dirty Roses Are Red Poems You must have quite a refined taste for historical and high wit, for you are about to be delighted (as well as tormented) by the word play!Wordplay is an embellisher. It prettifies poetry’s architecture. If rhyme and meter are its beams and joists, wordplay is the artfully chiseled balustrade, the pillowed window seat, the foliated mantel frieze, the coordinated hues adorning the interior walls. Choice of paint is a crucial decision—potentially elevating a room from the merely functional to the inviting and comely. But it won’t keep your walls and ceiling from coming down.