Now That I know it is National Limerick Day

The excuse behind National Limerick Day:

He was a 19th century pioneer
So, on May 12th of the year
National Limerick Day
Is our way to say
Happy Birthday to poet Edward Lear.

Many disdain limericks for the scatalogical content of a few popular ones:

Limericks have an unwholesome reputation
For a bald and naked fixation
Will it offend so
If I use innuendo
For disguised, restrained titillation?

Happy International Limerick Day

On May 11, 2014, at 9:56 PM (PDT), Henry Doerr wrote from New Zealand:

Limericker, McMillan, Doug
So successful, he's too smug
Forgetting that today
Is International Limerick Day
He now must hide in a rug.

Giving me, the smug one, time to wish Edward Lear (1812 - 1888) happy birthday and to wish all of you a Happy Limerick Day.

On this side of the dateline I'm OK

Because today is still Mother's Day

But thanks for the warning

Because in the morning

I'll need something limerickal to say.

And What Did You Do Yesterday That Was Different or Exciting?

I jogged up Market and then Sacramento
Down Channing and onto San Pablo
I tried hard to dent
The sidewalk cement,
The damage to the concrete doesn't show.

It was bloody embarrassing.

I didn't see where the pavement rose
But I found the bump with my toes
I didn't just land
On my outstretched hand
But on knees and forehead and nose.

It Was a Very Long Day

No, this is not a paid endorsement.

After 5 hours with the Concord Bus crew

We stayed in Boston an hour or two

To meet with TSA

Then 6 hours on our way

To San Francisco with a team from Jet Blue.

Despite the fact that the bus and plane seats had more room than many I have experienced (repeat above note) I was stiff and sore by the end of the day.

Sardined in a tube in the air

Cramped and wondering where

I could stretch out my feet

While strapped to a seat -

A torture rack in need of repair.