Another Month of Limericks (Alphabetical) #13 "M is for Minnesotans"

Minnesotans are glad that their lakes
Aren't infested with tropical snakes.
The seasonal cold
Keeps serpents controlled -
It's a very good thing (for Pete's sakes!)

Another Month of Limericks (Alphabetical) #12 "L is for Leaping Lords" Two Versions

Sir Lancelot loathed leaping lords.
He preferred manly battle with swords -
"To dance and to sing
In the court of the king?
You've got to be out of your gourds!"

Sir Lancelot loathed leaping lords.
"You've got to be out of your gourds -
Terpsichorean fluff
Isn't manly enough
For Round Table knights and their swords."

Another Month of Limericks (Alphabetical) #11 "K is for Knick-Knacks"

The knick-knacks Aunt Sheila displayed
Were all so exquisitely made
That they broke at the touch,
So they sat on the hutch,
And over the decades decayed.

Another Month of Limericks (Alphabetical) #10 "J is for Jonathan's Jockey's"

All of Jonathan's Jockeys are new.
He went shopping and bought quite a few.
But he's shy and discreet
And impeccably neat,
And he modestly keeps them from view.

Another Month of Limericks (Alphabetical) #9 "I is for I"

The Art Critic: Relativism; or, Ay, Ay, Ay

It isn't a thing for which I
Could give you a nay or an aye.
It isn't exact,
Not fiction or fact -
It can only be judged by the eye.

Another Month of Limericks (Alphabetical) #8 "H is for St. Hildegard"

St. Hildegard's holiest miracle?
To make herself totally spherical
And bounce like a ball
Down the long abbey hall
Singing chants that were blesséd and lyrical.

Another Month of Limericks (Alphabetical) #7 "G is for Gamba" (and Greensleeves and Galliard)

A consort of gambas in Rio
Played "Greensleeves" and galliards with brio.
They adapted the gamba
To playing the samba,
And transcribed the "Saudades" of Milhaud.