Another Series of Alphabetical Limericks, #5 "E is for Easter Egg"

There's an Easter egg hunt in July.
Perhaps you were wondering why.
The sensible reason
It's held out of season
Is to save on the cost of the dye.

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.