[Writingworkshop] St Patricks Day limericks

[Adam Holland]

I especially like "lashings of eighties polemic".
the image of such polemics as an actual whip is too good.

On Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 10:18 AM, Neale Morison <neale at nealemorison.com>
wrote:

> Things that are rare where I'm from: ski
> Fields, fried oreos, Bikes not Bombs, kee-
> nly missed ex lib PMs,
> very tall poppy stems,
> M.I.T., Harvard, Minsky and Chomsky
>
> A young Scots professor of history
> Dispensed with confusion and mystery,
> He told Jean-Jacques Rousseau,
> Where his savage could go,
> In terms so precise they were blistery.
>
> The virulent PC pandemic,
> Is in serious theater systemic:
> Hopeless poverty, blood,
> Women wrestling in mud,
> And lashings of eighties polemic.
>
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