{"id":227,"date":"2007-11-13T02:42:08","date_gmt":"2007-11-13T06:42:08","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/11\/13\/first-and-last-visit\/"},"modified":"2013-10-29T15:45:58","modified_gmt":"2013-10-29T19:45:58","slug":"first-and-last-visit","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.madkane.com\/humor_blog\/2007\/11\/13\/first-and-last-visit\/","title":{"rendered":"First (And Last) Visit (Limerick)"},"content":{"rendered":"

First (And Last) Visit (Limerick)
\nBy Madeleine Begun Kane<\/p>\n

I’m allergic to felines; I sneeze\u00a0
\nAnd I tear when they’re near\u2014then I wheeze.\u00a0
\nSo I wish you had warned\u00a0
\nThat your house is adorned\u00a0
\nWith a half-hundred cats (Siamese).<\/p>\n

Author’s Note:<\/strong> This limerick is based on personal experience. Many years ago, a composer asked my chamber ensemble to rehearse at her home, so she could record a work of hers that we were getting ready to debut. I’d barely taken my oboe out of its case, when I started having trouble breathing.\u00a0 My attack got very bad, very quickly, and I was forced to leave without rehearsing.\u00a0<\/p>\n

I later learned that our host’s hobby was breeding cats, and that her house was packed with them. Since I’m very allergic to cats, this would have been a good thing to have been warned about.\u00a0<\/p>\n

(You can find more of my pets and animals humor here<\/a> and more of my health humor here.<\/a> <\/p>\n

UPDATE: Happy National Cat Day<\/a>! (October 29th)<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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