A Month of Limericks, #14 - The Mall of America.. and enjambment

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.

A Month of Limericks, #13 - Columbus Day

Unless you're forgetful or slumbrous
You'll know about Christopher Columbus
Whose voyage to here
Prove the world was a sphere.
Instead of some sort of a rhombus.

A Month of Limericks, #12 "From a bridge on the old Mississip' "

From a bridge on the old Mississip',
When the October air has a nip,
The view is so glamorous
That people with cameras
Declare it was well worth the trip.

A Month of Limericks, #11 "A lachrymose lad in Superior"

A lachrymose lad in Superior
Gazed at the lake and grew blearier.
"It isn't the ocean,"
He sobbed with emotion,
"I'm stuck in the Midwest interior."

A Month of Limericks, #10 "A stubborn old man in Chanhassen"

A stubborn old man in Chanhassen
Casts his vote each election for Stassen.
The notion took hold
In the fifties, I'm told,
And he can't get the thing to unfasten.

or

A stubborn old man in Chanhassen
Casts his vote each election for Stassen.
"I know that he's dead.
But he's stuck in my head,
And I can't get his name to unfasten."

or

A stubborn old man in Chanhassen
Casts his vote each election for Stassen.
"I know it's insane,
But it's stuck in my brain,
And I can't get the thing to unfasten."

A Month of Limericks, #9 "The star of the circus in Fargo"

The star of the circus in Fargo,
A stunning young rhino named Margot,
Chased people from Moorhead
With the horn on her forehead,
Until they insisted the star go.

A Month of Limericks, #8 "Sophia, who lives in Sioux Falls"

Sophia, who lives in Sioux Falls
Can bake a soufflé that enthralls.
Suffice it to say
That Sophia's soufflé
Was featured one year in McCall's.