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Barbelith Haiku , Nonsense, and Limmerick Thread

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Jack Fear

12:20 / 16.05.02

I once wrote a scandalous limerick about Flyboy, back when he was called Zenith. You had to pronounce it in the American style, though (ZEE-nith), and you had to read it aloud with a lisp...

And old one from my notebooks:

A young dame with the fearsome name "Kali"
(Though her manner is really quite jolly)
Is worshipped, I'm told,
In an idol of gold
By the natives of Fiji and Bali.

Cavatina

11:12 / 17.05.02

Just remembering 'The Body Fictive' ...

There was a bold writer called Nick
who slammed the derivative genre fanfic.
But in the debate that ensued,
the strong points he accrued
didn't deter ficcers from turning a trick.

Less searchable M0rd4nt

11:30 / 17.05.02

I know of a Captain named Zoom
Who writes Lovecraft pastiche in the gloom.
He's making a journal
'Bout horrors eternal
And nameless be-tentacled DOOM.

QUINT

13:53 / 17.05.02

A mouth like a terrible arc,
No question exists that his bark
Ain't nothing compared
With his bite, which he'll share
With you if you swim with a shark.

He's got little pig-eyes in his head,
And his stomach is oh-so-well fed.
I've scars and abrasions
From num'rous occasions
When he foolishly left me fer dead.

It's Quint that I am,
And a dreadful old man,
Like a warning of what is to come;
But I'm damned if I'll sit
On my worn old bowsprit
And drink myself stupid with rum.
It's off to the sea,
And off to the war,
With my belly-white mate
And his gut full o' hate
And I'll finish what I have begun.

lentil

15:38 / 17.05.02

A boring young man known as lentil,
His existence merely incidental,
Tried to gain weight*,
But sealed his fate,
By saying "Check me! I'm MENTAL!"

*This is meant in the sense of importance,
not girth, or mass, or "flab ordinance",
(Unnecessary clarification
Causes scarification
As its product is simply annoyance)

Cavatina

22:39 / 17.05.02

If it's cool music you seek,
and whether a band's hot or weak,
then Rothkoid's your man ...

In his inimitable style,
your time he'll beguile,
as, arrrr, he gives 'em the can ...

Yay, in his Splendid reviews,
as his gives you the news,
you'll soon know if he's piqued or a fan.

Rage

21:01 / 18.05.02

There once was a group of elitusts
Authorities wanted to meetus
For postmodern debates
On Our Brain Waves: the greats
Were the targets of Big Brother's fetus

A collective of pranksters one day
Were discussing a new game to play
Subverting the masses
With absurdisim gasses
And changing the contextof "gay"

The seekers of fresh revolution
Got locked in a new institution
When sheep they became
It was always the same
"Blah blah blah- evolution"

Rage

21:31 / 18.05.02

That last one wasn't about the current state of this place, BTW. It was more of a dystopian version of it.

More later. I love these things.

aus

17:15 / 05.02.04

The title of my haiku is Taxidermy, or trying to distract 'lithers from that other thread without being too obvious.

Taxidermy seems
like a good option for me
rather than a job.

So this morning I
went out gathering roadkill,
society's boon.

I already have
half a skunk stuffed with cotton -
the top half, of course.

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