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Limerick

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There once was a young girl named Mary.
She smiled as she ate the last cherry.
     She then picked her nose,
     scratched her butt and her toes,
and we all saw her armpit was hairy.
My Dad has a Limerick that he wrote when he was a kid. It goes:

There once was a young boy named Mike.
He smiled as he rode on his bike.
He jumped over three houses,
a bus, and four mouses,
and smiled 'til he hit that sharp spike.

Then he helped me write mine, and we did it in like 2 seconds exactly. I love it.
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Have you ever heard of an anti-limerick? It's where somebody messes with the rules of making a limerick. In this fabulous example on wikipedia, somebody changed the syllable requirements:

There was a young man from Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When asked why this was,
He replied "It's because
I always try to fit as many syllables into the last line as ever possibly I can."