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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'deck'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> He's a card-sharping cheater, that louse, With his deck stacked against the whole house. Though it all seems so fair, He is dealing with care; It's through knowing your hand that he'll chouse. <LIME...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'springtime coming'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Springtime's coming—I simply can't wait For my wintery blahs to abate. But this sure doesn't mean That I'm spring-cleaning keen; It's the one rite of spring that I hate. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mite'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'm a mite that you might call polite. May I ride on your hide out of sight? Ectozoic, that's me, Parasitic and wee. Please excuse me, I must have a bite. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pilot'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If a pilot's requested to switch The extent of his roll, yaw, or pitch, So as safely to land, But shouts "Who's in command?!" We've a real attitudinal glitch. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'grammy'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On the day that my band, Super Trampy, Got a music award, Gramps got crampy. Then the old guy just kicked, And cremation was picked. Now my shelf holds my Grammy, and Grampy. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'inhaled'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As a weapon this BZ was used, And the enemy troops it confused. When inhaled it would cause All their senses to pause. This psychotic leaves psyches abused. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'celiac sprue'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's a protein that's lurking in wheat, And in barley and rye. Do not eat Any gluten if you Live with Celiac sprue, You might live to see trouble accrete. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'saplings'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Incrementally's how you might fit, Piece by piece, all the parts in a kit. It's how saplings form trees And raw milk turns to cheese: Over time, by degrees, bit by bit. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'masted cat'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> She's not lovely deep waist, narrow stern, And she's bluff in the bow but she'll earn Me a mint. Shipping timber, We needn't be limber. This three-masted cat I'll not spurn. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'apologizer'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An apologizer shows some regret If he does things that cause you to sweat, Like drinking your beer And suggesting you're "queer", Then inviting you out to the Met. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chinook'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A chinook is a wonder to see, Both the fish and the wind off the lee Of the Rockies out west. But the one I love best Is the run that brings springtime to me. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'abbey ale'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Abbey ale's what we brew here, we Trappists. (We're in Belgium, for all of you mappists.) Strong and rich, full in body; As sweet as a toddy. I'm glad that we're brewers, not frappists. <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'loafers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Joni Ernst shared her hardscrabble life With a tale of her shoes causing strife. She'd had only one pair Which she'd covered with care. In the Senate, now, loafers are rife. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'buffalo roam'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We reside where the buffalo roam. Strong cacodorous scents fill our home. Our deer (antelope too!) Do what large mammals do — Thank the Lord for Phil's Phumigant Phoam! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'abyssinian bananas'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Are Abyssinian bananas a treat? No, not much. It's a fruit you can't eat. But the shoots, when they're young, Are a treat for the tongue, Or at least that's the word on the street. <LI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'disfranchisement takes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Disfranchisement takes away rights For which citizens got into fights. The right of most note Is the freedom to vote For those rats we promote to the heights. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'polyandrous'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Words with -androus are easy to spot, Showing how many husbands you've got. You're monandrous? Just one Wedded male shares your fun. Polyandrous? You've got quite a lot! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'drowsy days'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Drowsy days at your desk—what a deal! Better stir or your blood might congeal. Get to work and collapse Into salaried naps. You chairwarmers legally steal. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ring'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Mom died, but I didn't inherit The ring I was promised (12-carat). I snatched up my claim. The cops came, heard my name. Grassing up? Sister's stool-pigeon parrot. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cerebral shunt'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Hydrocephalus. Cerebral shunt. Now. Abfrontal," said Doc, with a grunt. The word took me aback And I wanted to crack, "Just say back for behind what's in front." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'olden days'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In olden days, he who would sing In the tavern some trifling thing Could embellish his songs With the bellows and tongs, Or the bumbass or bladder and string. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mating'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Are you seeking a tasteful expression You can use with finesse and discretion For the action of mating, Without an X-rating? My suggestion: the old word congression. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'close'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Many websites you may have been cruising. Time to close some you're no longer using: Hold Control plus one key: Don't think "close" and press "C" — No, it's W. Ain't that confusing? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'curlews curfew'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The curlew saw fit to complain, "Campus dorms and their rules are inane. If I date human men, I must fly back by ten, And for curlews, a curfew's a pain!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'talks'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> She's a looker—astoundingly pretty; Jaws drop when she walks in the city. And whenever she talks, She's the target of gawks, 'Cause she's also incredibly witty! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dabber person'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A dabber (a person who dabs) May touch lightly, or gently make jabs. One dimensional? No. Talks on phone? Maybe so. And if so, there's a dabber who blabs. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pinball'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If at pinball you cheat, you're a tilter. If your girl's heart you break, you're a jilter. If your car's running rough With a huff and a puff, Then it may be you need an air filter. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'awakes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> She awakes disputatious and mean, Oozing cussedness, venting her spleen. Disagreeable early, She's grouchy and surly— So, quick, get the witch some caffeine! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'molar'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On each molar I've mounted a sheath With a minuscule gun underneath, While each canine is capped With explosives, then wrapped. You might say that I'm armed to the teeth. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'princess leia'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Princess Leia! I want you to marry Me now," Man in Black sang, "don't tarry! I will order a ring For the postman to bring— And then truly we'll be—Cash and Carrie!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'reptile grows'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As a reptile grows large, fat or thin, It must shed or exuviate skin. When its coat's grown too tight It's with joyful delight That it rubs on a rock to begin. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'epicycloids curve'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When a circle rolls 'round in the plane, 'Round the rim of another, obtain From the trace of its path, As they teach you in math, Epicycloids, a curve that's arcane. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cetyl alcohol'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This substance gets mixed in a vat When they turn spermaceti to fat. It's a crystalline goo Used in creams (and rouge, too). Cetyl alcohol. That's where it's at! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'armchair travelers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though they tend to stay right where they are, Armchair travelers want to go far. Filled with wanderlust dreams, They warm seats and plan schemes To save money for plane, room, and car...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'flame'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I suppose I was mostly to blame When I suddenly burst into flame. One shouldn't aspire To sit near the fire When Danger is one's middle name. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'prostate less'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As a man, if you live till you're eighty, Then you'll find you can't pee so well, matey. Finasteride might Help diminish your plight, And in time make your prostate less weighty. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'escalator trick'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "An amusement park ride!" the man laughed. "A good stairway's secure in its craft. But your escalator trick? I feel squeamish; it's sick. Moving steps—isn't that a tad daft?" <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'beetle car'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An anteater enters a bar. From his nose to his toes, there's a scar, And a black tire track Down the length of his back. "So a Volkswagen Beetle's a CAR?!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ale disappears'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> For some good conversation I've hankered, But your topics resist staying anchored— Though it's easy to guess Why you tend to digress, As the ale disappears from your tankard. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'name cheney'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though Bush doesn't seem very brainy (And his diction seems comically zany), We're so glad he's not dead: We'd inherit, instead, His vice president ... what's-his-name ... Cheney. <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'soon communion'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At his last Seder meal, Jesus thirled His disciples with rites he unfurled: "Drink this wine; eat this bread." Soon Communion dispread. Now remembrance of Christ fills the world. <LIMERICK...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'audit'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As I audit their company's books, On page three there's a total that looks About twenty times more Than on top of page four. Is this carryover? These guys are crooks! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hate pistachio'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "As I order ice cream," said Camilla, "I am caught 'tween Charybdis and Scylla. Just two choices I find. I detest either kind— Hate pistachio; can't stand vanilla!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fermi distance'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though Enrico is off with Saint Peter, His surname won't vanish or teeter. What explains its persistence? The fermi's a distance: A quadrillionth part of a meter. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'checks cashed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> While on credit, a debtor's infraction May be cured by an underreaction. An accord he thus tenders To satisfy lenders: Checks cashed lead to great satisfaction. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'knot'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you pull the wrong ends of this knot, It will capsize, and then what you've got (Though it used to be square) Is as flimsy as air. Was it mooring the bow of your yacht? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bungler foolish'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "He's an addle-pate, madam! A loon! He's a bungler! A foolish buffoon! 'Twixt his ears is but space, And of brain, not a trace!" "Did I mention we marry this June?" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pudding scoop'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> All the sweet-loving guests in your group Find they've space for a pudding. A scoop Or a slice of dessert Served with cream—a big spurt— Seems to titillate more than the soup. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gabion wired'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A gabion, wired as a box, Can be filled with earth, sandbags or rocks. They are used to build forts Or repair dams and ports, Where they're stacked, joined together in blocks. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'true war'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Mathew Brady took photos to tell Folks back home that it's true: War is hell. He recorded the ends Of their husbands and friends, Sons and brothers, in death where they fell. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'deltoids'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Deltiologists, one might suspect, Study deltoids, but that's incorrect. They are hobbyists who Buy and trade and accrue. Picture postcards are what they collect. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alumnus'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'm not an alumni. Here's why: I'm only a singular guy. If it's one grad from school, The grammatical rule Is alumnus. (And I'm Sigma Phi.) <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'throat razors'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Cut-throat razors, increasingly rare, (Most confined to the barbershop's chair) Have a single-edged blade, One end hinged, as it's made To fold into the handle (with care). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'butterflyer'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You're a butterflyer? Really? I'll bet You look cute with your jars and your net. Chasing bugs, all aflutter, For your bread and your butter? You're a swimmer? Well, that's better yet! <LI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'root beer'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> From the bark of a tree comes a drink; It's a soda like root beer, not Wink. Though I savor vanilla And crave sarsaparilla, This birch beer goes straight in the sink. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'elephant'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The elephant's famed for his trunk, Which he lifts to avoid the odd skunk. His nostrils are free, Since they're mobile, to flee, And be other than where the skunk stunk. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cheeks'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Her cheeks are aflame with a rosiness Revealing the shame of her nosiness. She's seeking to hide As she's peeking inside At a couple who snuggle in coziness. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mel lifted'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Mel lifted his fist and he dealt A hard blow that I instantly felt. There's a tear in my sleeve— Sure it's hard to believe— But just look at my arm! See the welt? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'neocon views'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I would say to this pundit: Come, come. We've heard the incessant thrum thrum Of your neocon views; (They're not really new news), So we know where you're coming from, Frum! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gable'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I will make this thing work, if I'm able: I will add a room onto my gable. If it doesn't work out, I will scream and I'll pout, Then get back to the old drawing table. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fired monsieur'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> How dare you to browbeat me, sir? You are only my father's chauffeur! Your demeanor is stern, And your words slash and burn; I'll go tell, then you're fired, monsieur! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'write limericks'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We write limericks. It's arduous toil — Put ideas on the stove till they boil. Those works that are bubbly, Not rhythmically troubly, Are judged as according to Doyle. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'respiration'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Respiration involves inhalation Continuing till its cessation, When our fast-cooling meat Matches ambient heat On the date of our great expiration. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sew'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To sew up, to enclose by a seam, To include, to contain—that's the theme. But because I can't sew (And so much I well know), Such enseaming will stay but a dream. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blood clot'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If a blood clot blocks one of your veins, You'll experience terrible pains. As more blood cells congeal (Red and white) you will feel That you'll very soon wind up 'remains'. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'watching emesis'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Watching emesis makes me feel sick. It's so gross when the vomit is thick. But I hold back rebuke When I see someone puke, Cuz when someone is down, you don't kick. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blue huckle'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Blue-, huckle-, bil-, all just the same, As a prefix attached to the name Of a wonderful berry; Black- 'n' goose- (that one's hairy). Fine straw- fields forever found fame. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'green forests'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Green forests are filled with lush scenery: Trees and flora and all sorts of greenery. Living plants you will find Of most every kind, Plus a notable lack of machinery. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'acne generalis'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> With acne generalis, a case May occur on the sufferer's face, Or it might take a whack At his chest and his back: He's got lesions all over the place! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'beachcomber finds'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A beachcomber finds on the shore Old fishing nets, driftwood and more: The delicate skull Of a sand-covered gull, And cuttlefish bones by the score. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'booth'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When a craftswoman set up her booth At the fair, just outside of Duluth, She had made shoddy goods From inferior woods, So her ads bore no likeness to truth. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'avifauna seldom'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In a region with nary a bird, Not a chirp nor a song can be heard. When no birders can stare 'Cause the birds are not there, Avifauna's a seldom-used word. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mccain'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Had your fill of McCain and Obama, Yet still craving political drama? Though you're not the real thing, Why not wire Beijing: "Where's my visa, guys? (signed) Dalai Lama." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'modern composers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Most modern composers avoid Old methods we've always enjoyed, But no grudge do I harbor For Samuel Barber: He's almost as good as Pink Floyd. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'symbols encrypted'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's a ciphertext message, encoded So that privacy won't be eroded. It's entirely scripted In symbols—encrypted In figures (I hope) not outmoded. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'moaned steve'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "My students," moaned Steve, "aren't attentive. I need to provide an incentive." So he gave them some seed From a naturalized weed. "Marijuana," he said, "is adventive!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'grapes hanging'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A sly fox saw some grapes hanging high. "They look tasty. To reach them I'll try." He tried hour after hour, Then ("They're sure to be sour!") He gave up and skulked off, by and by. <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'vagaries dentinocemental'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your vagaries dentinocemental May be treated by artifice dental. The stuff in your teeth Can be fixed from beneath With our fillings, for sale or for rental. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fellow students'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Condisciples took heed of the speech Of their classmate who stood up to preach: "Fellow students, let's all Shun these bricks in the wall In this classroom and head for the beach!" <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ethnomycology'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The study of fungi has grown Through the ages; thus experts have shown Growth of medical uses And social abuses. As ethnomycology it's known. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'humpty dumpty'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Humpty Dumpty was known as a rambler, And at lights, a devout amber gambler. Through yellows, he'd dash Till a multi-car crash Turned his yolk to one vast "amber scrambler." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'doughnuts digest'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I would judge jelly doughnuts' digest- ibility doubtful at best, As I'm starting to gag At the last in the bag. (Why oh why did I scarf down the rest?) <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'empiricist'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I found myself being attacked: "Good ideas must have basis in fact!" The empiricist's sneer Made it perfectly clear What my theory actually lacked. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'capsules choke'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> No capsules: I choke and get queasy. Find pills that dissolve, and I'm easy— Some disintegrable med That won't mess with my head. Help me quick, Doc. I'm dopey and sneezy. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sussex'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If the knappers of Sussex were lax, Would we fall to old Boney's attacks? Every barrel and stock Has a lock at half-cock In a war without fine Brandon blacks. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'censurable act'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A censurable act draws reproof; What's been done is much more than a goof. It's a major transgression Or big indiscretion (Like calling your pappy a poof). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'artilleryman'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The artilleryman called his command. "The shelling's proceeding as planned." "No it ain't," was replied. "'Cause we all nearly died, For you're targeting right where I stand!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> She took all of us home to her digs, And she fed us with dainties and figs. Then, I'm sorry to tell, The Circean mam'selle Turned us sailors (you guessed!) into pigs. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dialect localised'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A dialect's a localised change Made to language that broadens its range; But when use of a word Sounds obscure, or absurd, Then our shared Mother Tongue can feel strange. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dryness'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Was it due to its dryness (like hay) Or its camouflage colour (mid-grey)? Either way, now my hair Is a tree squirrel's lair. By my students I'm called "Dr. Drey". <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'civilized culture'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A century back, it seemed clear That each civilized culture must steer A more primitive tribe Its old ways to proscribe — To detribalize, something to cheer. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'lure trick'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As you hear, it's a part of the word; Lure's a trick both for you or a bird. When the baited poised trap Has ensnared the prey (snap!), To escape is quite hard, have you heard? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fritz frosch'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Safe and damp," thought Fritz Frosch as he sank In the splish-sploshy dark. "How I thank The good rain god, who gave Such a puddly cave, For saving my life: Gott sei Dank!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'abdominoanterior'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In these sonogram photos one sees That my son is quite eager to please. Abdominoanterior, He's clearly superior! If you squint, you can see him say "Cheese!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'coup'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A coup de théâtre's a turn Of events in a play—like you learn That a pauper and schmuck, Through a change in his luck, Strikes it rich and has money to burn. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'explosion'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> For explosions, both tiny and vast, There's a radius, Sir, of the blast. Don't go closer, all right? That explosion just might Leave you needing a casket or cast. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'entryway'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> An entryway's part of the route You would use to go in, without doubt. But, oddly, the name Of this room stays the same Even when it is used to go out. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chemical weapons'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Many species of insects are known To use chemical weapons. Foes moan, "It's an allomone! Run!" Some can glue, others stun. Some bait prey with alluring cologne. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'city apanthropy'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The city's apanthropy's bane: The crowds there could drive you insane. The country's for me — It is so people-free That a misanthrope couldn't complain. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cat hattie'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My cat Hattie went out on a date With a tomcat who wanted to mate, But she dumped him, in truth, 'Cause she found him uncouth. He would catillate—lick off his plate. <LIMERICK_END>
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