Tuesday, August 28, 2007

Guest LimerickPic

-Prepare yourselves.

-What follows is the only officially licensed double stanza LimerickPic in the history of the known universe.

-This LimerickPic was not written by Yuba Post staff.

-Yuba Post staff have been attempting double stanza LimerickPics for decades, but have never succeeded.

-Yuba scientists have studied pictorial-literary phenomenons and deemed the double stanza LimerickPic to be unrealizable, and "purely the stuff of science fiction."

-And yet, Yuba Post correspondent Brandon Hall has composed - using legible English and an actual photographic depiction - a double stanza LimerickPic.

-It was the first LimerickPic he ever attempted to write.

-He must be brought down a peg:

-Brandon Hall is from Williamsport, PA, home of the Little League World Series, and yet, as a boy, he failed to play in the Little League World Series, and this failure nullifies any accomplishments he has achieved, or will achieve later in life, including the composition of double stanza LimerickPics, and renders his existence on this planet unsuccessful.

-Better.

-This is the first officially licensed double stanza LimerickPic in the history of the known universe, created by Brandon Hall:



It was a harmless walk down the Yuba street
When I came across this puffy seat
It spoke to me--
Not figuratively
So terrified, I hustled home in the Yuba heat.

The next day, I returned to the chair
Still stranded there in the summer air
Again it spoke
And told this joke:
What kind of animal sits on your head? A hare.

My chair has a crappy sense of humor.


Photo presumably taken by Brandon Hall.
"LimerickPic" is a trademarked format by Yuba Industries.
Contact Nik Frank-Lehrer for licensing information.

5 comments:

Senator Murphy said...

Why is nobody commenting on this limerickpic. I think it may be one of the finest limerickpics I've ever seen, personally. The interior rhyme in the second line of the second stanza is really a...a...triumph. I dare say it's a triumph. Cheers to the Yuba Post for inspiring such feats of creativity in its readers.

Nik Frank-Lehrer said...

This limerick writer has absolutely no sense of proper limerick rhythm and has shown complete disregard for the respected history of the single-stanza limerick. The next thing you know, he'll be asking us to "update" our paper-and-ink news sources by transplanting the on "The Internet" because "the new ways just work better." Harumph, I say.

Terrrii said...

Dis heah limerick's not so bad
but da pic compnent's awful sad.
Dis stellar verse
is made much worse
by da chair that is *inside* his pad.

Pop Doyle said...

Poemin' Jerome is BACK BABY!!!

Anonymous said...

um...ouch.