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There once were some poems about drinkin’
…whose readers asked, what were you thinkin‘?
Over in Seattle, the Stranger hosts a “drunk limerick writing contest.” The selections expose an admirable range of mangled meter, failed rhyme, and unsavory imagery. Below, please find the single entry whose language was clean enough to meet Harriet‘s persnickety standards:
The mustachioed man is called Flanigan,
And his friend just got back from the Vatican.
They got loaded drunk,
In the mornin’ they stunk,
And they shouted, “let’s go do THAT again!”
Or…let’s not.
We await the contest results with bated and beery breath.
2010-09-03
Posted in Awards on Friday, September 3rd, 2010 by Poetry News.