Limericks / Luddite Delight

The second line has 9 syllables. “We is” is 2 syllables, but “we’s” is one syllable.
The last line refers to the bane of all newly washed cars “bird droppings.”

Yeah, but every hick knows one fancy word.
I thought about using without, maybe I should. Was it terribly distracting?
I am trying to keep the 99669 format.

sans “sans”: a malapropism might add to the funny…
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the rhythm is essential in a limerick, no? more important than syllables is the        ba BOP ba ba BOP ba ba BOP ba
[there once was a man from nantucket]

Yeah, this is really just a lampoon. I just trimmed it up to make it fit the 99669 format. Thank you for your review though.

How embarrasing, I spelled Caesar wrong. I will have to change all the history books once my goal is accomplished. It will give the Praetorians something to do.  

LOL!  that’s great!  I can see you already have the right attitude for a Caesar!  ;-)

Do you even understand the point of the limerick? It is to lampoon people who’s first instinct is to have MS WORD “fix” any poetry they read, often thinking people who don’t use this technic are stupid, illiterate, and uneducated.
That is the reason for the use of the sloppy, hicklike slang.
If this were a serious piece I might use formal language, but it is just designed to be a joke.

I didn’t say you were ‘stupid, illiterate, and uneducated’ I said, TO ME, it is ‘sloppy language’.  I’m merely saying I didn’t like it because of those terms.

It’s not an insult to you. I’m just giving you my opinion. You have talent and I don’t deny the fact. Sorry if you felt insulted, that wasn’t my meaning.

I did not feel insulted. The sloppy language is intentional, and integral, designed to accentuate the low opinion it claims is held by people who “fix” poems by plugging them into computers. Also by putting it into correct grammar it no longer follows the 99669 formal format for limericks. Without the language the lampoon would be like a spear with a dull point.
Sorry you didn’t understand the poem because of the language. There is always a danger that when writing in dialect that people from other areas will not understand the dialect. Here though is a  correct language form of the piece.

For those who like poems written by WORD.
The rest of us? We are all just absurd.
We are dumber than beans.
Writing without those machines!
And our art was all dropped from a bird!

Maybe you don’t agree but I don’t think this is half as effective an insult in proper english.
Anyway, thank you for your review.

Thanks. I thought about looking up the line lengths for limericks, but I really wasn’t too serious about this piece at first. But here’s a rewrite.
(Watch out for the tobacco spit)

Dem dat like poems written by WORD
Da rest of us?  We’s all just absurd.
We is dumber dan beans,
writin sans dem machines!
And our art was all dropped from a bird!

I like writin’ in accents. You might like my “Limerick… Clerihew! Gesuntite” poem. “sans” seems like onna dem “smart peoples” words.. dough.