What is it with Me and Limericks?

My big poetry collection:

Crossed the 11,000 word mark with today's update, and more than a quarter of those words, I just noticed, are in the form of limericks. But not just individual limericks: no, that'd be much too easy. These limericks are all mooshed together into three pieces that are essentially short stories: "An Apple a Day," "A Simple Desultory Philippic," and this latest thing, "From Scratch," inspired by Carl Sagan's famous baking tip.

I can't even begin to imagine what it is about limericks that made me decide to use them to tell stories. But then so much of what I do remains mysterious to me...

Mike

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[Lurks-no-More]

And here I thought it would have been about a popular white unicorn who wears sunglasses at night (and owns a bass cannon).

You haven't written anything about Octavia and Vinyl, have you?

[AugieDog]

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I haven't:

Done anything for Vinyl and Octavia. I haven't even done anything for Lyra and Bon Bon, now that I think about it.

Guess I know what my next couple poems're gonna be about, then!

Mike

[Super Trampoline]

One of my most popular (mature) stories is just a Series of bawdy limericks. By the way, are you going to BABSCon?