Limericks

This was truly horrifying! Our latest writing group assignment was to write limericks. Alas, I learned something new: I can't write limericks. But here they are anyway.

(The first is from a news headline: granny mistakes superglue for eyedrops)

There once was a gal from down under
Who made a most horrible blunder
She used glue as eye drops
And it took seven cops
To pull her stuck eyelids asunder


A writer who feared block’s befalling
Strayed from his horror-writer calling
He tried his hand at rhyme
But found in short time,
his lim-ricks were truly appalling