March 12, 2012
My plea to the GOP
I'm begging you please let this end
Decide which of these clowns you will send
Just take your pick
From Newt, Ron or Rick
Or Mitt who is able to bend
Into whatever candidate that you might need
For he's not met one belief he can't knead
If one doesn't thrill
Perhaps a different one will
Whatever it takes to succeed
So choose one of these men and please soon
For all of the fun's left the room
I used to enjoy
Whatever the ploy
For they clearly spelled GOP doom
But of recent I just can't get enthused
And I'm quite frankly rather bemused
Can these men really think
That their words are in sync
With the women who's rights they'd abuse?
Yes the election has come down to sex
And all women this truly should vex
Forget abortion these days
There are new trails to blaze
And women's rights muscles to flex
Do we all want our sex lives controlled
By these men who wag their fingers and scold
Who won't condemn Rush
Whose bile makes them gush
And who can't see this issue's fool's gold
They'll all fight for your every last gun
Make sure the healthcare law's undone
Denounce evolution
Increase earth's pollution
There's no real difference in the long run
So, I'm begging you please let this end
Decide which of these clowns you will send
Newt, Ron, Rick or Mitt
I don't care a whit
They all equally rile and offend
Posted by Sarah Firisen at 12:30 AM | Permalink
Comments
Lines 20 and 29 should be "whose" not "who's"
Posted by: Doug Henning Jr. (@likethemagician) | Mar 12, 2012 11:11:06 AM
Does the word "meter" mean anything to you?
Posted by: Joe | Mar 12, 2012 11:13:23 AM
To anyone who does not want to see the Republicans in power, a long drawn out primary is a good thing. The longer this goes on, the less popular the Republican candidate (probably Romney) will be. A contentious brokered convention would be the best outcome. Even better would be the Republican convention nominating someone that the voters never voted for.
Posted by: Ian Kaplan | Mar 12, 2012 1:28:49 PM
That was almost as awful as they are.
But, if you really want awful, then have a look a at the deluded Americans who despite all evidence, still believe it matters whether the salesman in the oval office will have a 'D' or an 'R' after his name come next January- any more than its mattered for the last 3 years.
Posted by: Snoopy | Mar 12, 2012 9:30:33 PM
Commenting on the structure, not the politics in it.
Sarah, Limericks your forte.
6th stanza should end with ?
Love the rhymes in the 2nd stanza. For your next, try rhyming mono with bi or tri syllables, which should be easy for you.
Posted by: Rafiq Kathwari | Mar 13, 2012 2:07:11 AM
You know about the Rhyming Dictionary. Don't you?
Posted by: Rafiq Kathwari | Mar 13, 2012 2:10:15 AM
The Limerick's secret is heat
Which it gets from that anapest beat.
Newt, Mitt, Ron and Rick
Also make me quite sick,
But the meter should always be meet.
Posted by: Mike Cope | Mar 13, 2012 2:42:57 AM
Yet, even this offering from Cope
With its gentle and prosaic lope
Does stumble, for mine -
The penultimate line
Having one surplus beat interlope?....
Now I'm happy to host a rebuttal
(As ever when playing word-shuttle)
For a rhythm I choose
May sorely abuse
YOUR syllables' chosen abuttal!
:-) M
Posted by: MattInOz | Mar 13, 2012 7:12:33 AM
Like grammer cops shuddering horror
The beat cops will pound on the floor
If the words are too long
or the syllables strong
Like off•er•ing adding one more
Posted by: Carlos | Mar 13, 2012 12:17:32 PM
What's wrong with that second-last line?
I counted the beats, and it's fine.
The anapest-meter
Doesn't falter or teeter.
(Perhaps you have been at the wine?)
Posted by: Mike Cope | Mar 13, 2012 12:21:14 PM
I am both amused and horrified by the fact that all you fine gentlemen have chosen to comment on is the structure of the poem and not ONE of you has bothered to speak about it's content.
The women in your lives are under attack. Really. How do you feel about it? Does it bother you? If so, I would appreciate it if more of you spoke up about it, because unfortunately, your silence on the matter threatens to give the rest of us the impression that you are somehow in agreement with all the bile that is being spewed over the airwaves. Like the notion that women are second class citizens who should stay out of careers and go back to the kitchen, who should bear whatever children the men in their lives decide they should have and who should count the days before their very right to vote is up for debate again.
Do you agree with this? Do you? Forget about rhyme and meter! Seriously?
Silence is not an option. Not anymore.
Fortunately for us women we know better now -- and have more power -- than our mothers and grandmothers ever did, and we are not going to wait for you modern-day knights to save us from this one.
Having said that, I would like to take the opportunity to kindly suggest that you decide to be on the women's side of this issue, and soon, because sticking to old-fashioned bull is a losing proposition. And not saying anything and hoping it will go away will not work. Your silence is not a quiet one. It is loud, and it is damning.
If the women in your lives are happy and healthy and strong you will be happy and healthy and strong. The opposite also applies.
Trust me on this one.
Posted by: Núria Coe | Mar 13, 2012 2:29:22 PM
Nuria,
As you may have guessed from my signature, I live in Australia and thankfully don't have to put up with quite the level of heinous bile spewing forth from the likes of a Beck or a Limbaugh. Indeed, my feelings match exactly in every way the flavor of the poem. I congratulate the author for so succinctly expressing the degenerate tone of this terrible war on women and their bodies. From afar, I cannot actually believe it and shake my head in awe. Thankfully, though we still have the odd radio shock jock or conservative politician espousing such medieval views, they're in a minority and we are drifting more towards a Scandinavian model as a society.
If you were more familiar with my arguments on 3QD, you would already know this. I stand firmly with women (esp my wife!) on all these issues as it is so obviously through women's emancipation and sexual liberation that a society thrives. Period.
(the NEXT best thing we could do is rid ourselves of magical/religious/supernatural thinking - but hey, that's a whole other topic!)
That said, a little word play never hurt anyone, and as Mike so lucidly and cleverly perceived, last night saw us celebrate with friends (and a nice glass of red!) the imminent arrival of our first baby later this year. My apologies for the frivolity on a topic of such grave importance. Cheers. M
Posted by: MattInOz | Mar 14, 2012 3:36:01 AM
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