Literary Limericks

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Some scholar with limited smarts, Studied literature using charts. With ornate designs, And boards with red lines, For throwing post modernist darts.
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But then came a day when he missed,
one went through the window and hissed,
Just past the left ear,
Of a man playing Lear,
And like Lear on the Heath, he was pissed.

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A beautiful woman with charms,
Caused untold psychic alarms.
In the branches and Sects,
By engaging in sex,
While reading A Farewell to Arms.

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I knew a guy who drank Sterno. His name was Eddie Alterno. He looked quite illiterate, But he could reiterate, The Whole of Dante’s Inferno.

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That same ‘Sterno’ guy had embossed, On his T-shirt great names like Frost. Pound Eliot Keats Taylor, Yeats Plath Cummings Mailor, And the guy who wrote Paradise Lost.