Infamous Limerick
I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
An infamous author named Gene…
Here’s mine:
Infamous Limerick
By Madeleine Begun Kane
An infamous author named Gene
Was obnoxious and often obscene.
He was paid a steep price
For his writing, concise.
His prose was, like Gene, lean and mean.
Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.
Tags: Authors & Playwrights, Poetry & Prompts, Writers, Writing Prompts
An infamous author named Gene
Made a fortune by writing obscene
There wasn’t a chance
He could keep his advance
If he came up with anything clean…
An infamous author named Gene
penned prose from the blood of his spleen.
It often was morose,
and too often gross,
because it was marinated in taurine.
An infamous author named Gene
Was a mystery writing machine
He wrote so many books
in which the heroes were crooks
that he finally turned downright mean.
He chased after his unfaithful wife
With his awfully sharp butcher knife
When she finally fell
Gene’s conscience rang like a bell
And he just couldn’t bare to take her life.
An infamous author named Gene
Is a purple prose writing machine
Though critics agree his prose sucks
He still brings in big bucks
So the stories and profits – obscene
An infamous author named Gene;
A recluse, he is rare seldom seen.
When he finally shows
He just looks down his nose
And often says something quite mean.
An infamous author named Gene
Noted his skin turning green
Said he “It’s the copper
on my ring come a-cropper”
And the ring was ne’er again seen….
I’m really enjoying these. Please keep them coming!
And if you haven’t already posted them with the others on my Facebook post, please do. Thanks!
An infamous author named Babe Gene…
Swung his iron at the Delhi Golf Green
The white ball flew
Into Tiger Wood’s scene! Phew!
And now he has words ringing in his ears, rather obscene!
An infamous author named En Gene…
Wrote some explicit porn never before seen
The producer turned gray
At the longish screenplay
And demurred at his demand to get parrots to do the scene!
An infamous author named Barley Gene
Was enamored of Miss Catherine, thirteen
And copied Nabokov’s story
For the sake of instant glory
And he now acts in the penitentiary- but finds it obscene!
An infamous author named Gene
did research while dress as a Queen
and found her best lines
in used valentines
but looked his best at Halloween.
An infamous author named Gene
did research while dress as a Queen
and found his best lines
in used valentines
but looked his best at Halloween.
An infamous author named Gene
Whose work couldn’t be labeled clean
Wrote about bedroom eyes
And creamy white thighs
And places the sun hasn’t seen
hey! is that author and editor and fiddler carl lowe?
An infamous author named Gene
Was actually my daddy, as can be seen,
From my birth certificate,
Which, if you can believe it,
Is printed in green letters on green.
An infamous author named Gene
Said: “I’ll give up the literate scene!
My destiny’s loomin’
With Alfred E. Neuman
As a writer for Mad Magazine.”
These are delightful.
And Steve, you seem to have recognized another Massapequa High School grad. But as I recall, Carl Lowe played the viola, rather than the violin. Then again, we’re talking roughly a zillion years ago. :)
An infamous author named Gene,
Made money in the publishing scene,
His forte was porn,
He derided the scorn,
Now he’s proclaimed the Porn Guild’s Dean.
An infamous author named Gene
Penned Romances (some found quite obscene).
For the titillated masses,
Heaving breasts and tight asses;
These sure weren’t the Perils of Pauline!
An infamous author named Gene
Strung words, appropriate and keen
He has wealth and fame
But he made his name
Changing wives, dating women in between.
An infamous author named Gene
Took his muse from a lurid bar scene.
The drunks, louts, and floozies
Made his stories real doozies!
But the bean counters closed his mag’zine.
An infamous author named Gene
Whose rejections became too routine
Changed his genre and name
And gained bestselling fame
Writing fantasy fiction for teens
What a fun selection of limericks! Thanks and please keep them coming.
An infamous author named Gene
Brought his insistent muse to be seen
At a club: all stopped to gape
At the huge, glaring ape
Gene chided, “Fame! See what I mean?”
An infamous author named Gene
Reviews poor, drinking more, feeling mean:
Exploit teens? Women? Fiction?
Stateside vampire depiction?
Perhaps an expose on James Dean…
Welcome Patrice! Hope you’ll post these on Facebook too!
Sensing a common theme here …
GENE THEORY – A Little Off-Color