Limerickania (11)
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April 20, 2016
One in an ongoing series of comics-inspired limericks.
It’s vexatious to perch like Saint Simeon
When your stylos is bendin’ and shimmyin’,
Anarchists light their wick,
Every toe-hold’s greased slick,
And Selene blows you off for Endymion.
— Thanks, John Hilgart, for the inspiring comic-book panel.
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