Salon limerick contest
Salon's legion of poets take on Paul Ryan, Jack Welch and Joe Biden's smile: His smile was big, wide and sparkly.His tone was disdainful and snarky. But like him or not, Joe Biden was hot, And didn’t...
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With less than two weeks before election day, Salon's reader poets sized up the shape of the race: On Obama and his use of drones,You’d think he and Romney were clones.Their constant agreeing,Left...
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Salon readers assess the results in five line verse: Now NBC has a good reason,To air “The Apprentice” this season:For the public’s engrossed,When its bigoted host,Foments revolution and treason.John...
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After the election Salon’s poet cavalry wondered what’s next for national politics: The pundits can’t help be aquiver, At the words of a man who delivers, The data he crunches, To ruin our hunches, The...
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Salon readers show mercy for General Petraeus, but none for Sen. John McCain, R. Ariz., in this week's limerick contest: "An outrage is what we have here,"Said McCain, leading Fox News to cheer.The...
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The fiscal cliff loomed large in the poetic imagination this week, also Donald Trump:We must avoid this oncoming cliff!Or the question will be "when" not "if".The nation will slide,Into the...
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After taking a break to eat and drink and get a tan, Salon's news limerick contest is back. Nonsense verse is a way to tolerate the daily absurdities emerging from our nation's capital, but readers are...
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After a hiatus, Salon's limerick contest returns with assessments of college football, Obama's cabinet and more. A Notre Dame Fan LamentsWe left behind bleak Northern Lights,For a land of bikini'd...
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Salon's readers write poems on Republicans, the inauguration and poetry contests.On His Blindness -- Not (Yet) Winning the Limerick ContestThis contest has got me bewitched. I’ve not won so now I'm...
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Salon readers dissect Manti Te'O's troubles, the recipes at Burger King and the political scene:I feel sorry for poor Manti Te’O.Turns out his sweetie pie wasn’t reo.It was just his best friend,Playing...
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Salon readers dig up Richard III, pay tribute to Ed Koch and more:The Boy Scouts say it’s not okay, To be out and a Scout if you’re gay. But all straight molesters, The Toms, Dicks, and Chesters, Are...
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Salon readers take on Marco Rubio’s thirst and the Pope’s retirement:Cuban songbird Rubio, on the wing,Wet his whistle the better to sing.But there's many a slipTwixt the cup and the lipAnd the bottle...
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Salon readers explain rocks from outer space and Sen. Lindsey Graham: There once was a Senator named Lindsey,Whose reasoning was really quite flimsy.Obsessed with Benghazi,He went kamikaze,Based only...
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Salon readers rhyme the Pope’s resignation and Seth Macfarlane:Amidst litigation galore, Pope Benedict has said “No more!” He says he'll pursue prayer, But I'm scratching my hair, Asking, "What the...
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Salon readers weigh in on guns in the classroom, Donald Trump and the sequester: The role of the teacher gets bigger,In ways that I simply can't figger.Teach reading and writing,And make math...
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This week readers assess The Pope, Rand Paul and Ashley Judd: To save cash, White House tours are curtailed,But the House tours have NOT been derailed.So you still can have fun,Seeing nothing get...
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Savvy Salon readers dissect the Ryan budget, Rob Portman’s reversal and more: In a Salon piece I read by Sirota,Ryan's budget exceeds every quota,Of upper class' perks,As the rich get the works.It...
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Salon's poet army takes on DOMA and the Higgs BosonIt's now known there's a boson named Higgs,That creates both electrons and pigs.So it really does matter,How particles scatter.Some by zags, yet still...
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in the first compilation of the Salon limerick contest, here are the best reader submitted limericks from the election:As travel arrangements were set,Rafalca had reason to fret,When Romney...
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The best limericks submitted by Salon readers since the election:So we’ve come to this point, as a nation,Where a white man with money and station,Is no longer a shoe-in,So the Right Wing’s now...
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