5 Limericks 

There was a hot looking gal from the burbs

Whose body had all the right curves

One day her three cats

Brought home a stray rat

And the dinner it made was superb.

Her friend from the south was a singer

Who arrived one day just to bring her

Epsom salts and new pills

To mend all the ills

That tennis had simply made linger.

The cat left home alone in Danville

Had a meow that was annoyingly shrill

She was sadly as fat

As the Cheshire cat

The diff’rence was, she was real.

My friend knew a fellow named Barry

Who wanted a woman to marry

He moved in with one

And thought, this is fun

Til he found out she was really a Larry.

There once was a lad from afar

Who was known to be quite bizarre

He took his pet snake

That he cooked and then baked

And carried it around in a jar.

Laurie B. Ballard

Danville, 2012