Another Series of Alphabetical Limericks, #4 "D is for Deconstruction"

Upon "Upon Julia's Clothes"

A doctoral student named Derrick,
In a dense deconstruction of Herrick,
Defines the attraction
Of silk liquefaction
As dangerous, dark and barbaric.

Another Series of Alphabetical Limericks, #3 "C is for Chopin"

When Chopin was courting George Sand,
He caressed her authorial hand,
And composed a new work, a
Charming mazurka,
As played by a Polish town band.

Another Series of Alphabetical Limericks, #2 "B is for Behold!"

Behold! the Avonian Bard -
Ill-favor'd, ill-omen'd, ill-starr'd -
While fresh from a bar, Lo!
See Jonson and Marlowe
Lurch roaringly drunk through his yard!

Another Series of Alphabetical Limericks, #1 "A is for Academical"

An arcane alphabetical list
Was arranged to provide an assist
To tenure-bound critics
Who write analytics
In a deep academical mist.

Alphabetical Limericks #26 "Z is for Zebra... and Zen"

A zebra was sleepless at night
With a Zen existentialist plight.
Were the stripes on his back
Colored white over black?
Or reversed, i.e., black over white?

Alphabetical Limericks #25 "Y is for Yvette"

A Yugoslav lass named Yvette
Was a puzzle to men that she met.
They didn't, in fact,
Know how to react
To a Serbo-Croation soubrette.


A second version hinges on the probably too arcane fact that "tête-a-tête" can legitimately be pronounced in two different ways in English.  For better or worse, here it is.


A Yugoslav lass named Yvette
Faced a fate she would always regret:
Her bi-national traits
Worked against têtes-a-têtes,
And also against tête-a-tête.

Alphabetical Limericks #24 "X is for Xerxes"

The battle swords Xerxes was buried with,
The ones that he eXpertly parried with,
Allowed him a range
Of blades to eXchange,
In eXacting gradations of varied width.