For it seems the deepest truths, those of the heart that are the poet’s lifeblood, are often incompatible with straightforward expression. Wordplay is perhaps best understood as one of the tools that make possible poetry’s extraordinary concision. Grown clear-sighted with time, they now recognize that life’s ultimate rewards are few and fleeting. This definitive collection of the world's rudest, lewdest limericks will perhaps finally bestow respectability upon stanzas long venerated in oral tradition.

ADD TO THE COLLECTION - Filled with 144 pages of hilarious, crazy, dirty and cheeky rhymes and illustrations, this is a great naughty addition to any 18+ book shelf! It seems the ailing dog, in all its debility, continues to own its responsibilities; it still aims to safeguard the household. These days, unlike the days of my youth, you very seldom find a men’s room stall darkly scribbled with lubricious verses.

It was customary at the time for limericks to accompany an absurd illustration of the same subject, and for the final line of the limerick to be a variant of the first line ending in the same word, but with slight differences that create a nonsensical, circular effect. Something about the whimsical rhyme scheme, the bouncing meter and the sense of tension created in lines 3 and 4 seem to make the limerick especially suitable for the lewd and off-color subject matter. It’s built right into the poem, so that a failure to pun, or to arrive at a particular bawdy rhyme in a particular place, feels less like a thematic and more like an operational failure.

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