Continuing the series exploiting the names of Upper Midwest places....
These three limericks feature enjambment ("the running over of a sentence from one verse or couplet into another so that closely related words fall in different lines"), a technique not too much associated with the usually highly end-stopped limerick line. I experimented to see how often enjambment could be used and how violent it could be without tearing the fabric of the verse completely apart. (And you thought this blog was just fun and games?)
MOA 1
There is an old tale, and it's tall -
Why Paul Bunyan won't shop at the Mall
Of America or
The Men's Wearhouse store -
'Cause nothing there fits him... - that's all.
MOA 2
If you're planning a trip to shop all of
The stores that you find at the Mall of
America, know
That it's better to go
When you've had a martini and olive.
MOA 3
A logging camp story says Paul
Bunyan won't shop at the Mall
Of America, and
It's his understand-
-ing everything there will be small.
