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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'disports'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The girlfriends with whom he disports Are impatient but frolicksome sorts. "Come and play," they will say, "But we don't have all day." To be quick, he no longer wears shorts ... <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tim date'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> New Year's Eve was Tim's date to go boozing. In the morning, his headache was bruising. Gin and tonic repulsed While his stomach convulsed. The affliction: his very own choosing. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dog marriage'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Is your schnauzer in love with your collie? Jolly England can help you, by golly: Canine weddings—dog marriage I'd never disparage. But prenups? Now that would be folly. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chromoprotein'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Chromoprotein: this word's clear as mud," I complained to my classmate, Joe Judd. "What could ever be duller?" "It's a protein with color, Like the red in the cells of your blood." <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'defendant appeared'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At court, the defendant appeared In a deely-bobber notably weird: From her headband sprung eyes Of remarkable size Bouncing wildly. The gallery cheered. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'future'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The future's not present nor past. If you wait, it will get here at last, But it then will be now (Quite a trick, you'll allow), But not never. Ain't English a blast? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'diane concedes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The election is over. Diane Concedes victory to Steven, the man Who had won. Now she's through, She concedes defeat, too. Can she somehow do both? Yes, she can! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'vision becoming'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If your vision's becoming quite blurred, It is likely your case should be heard By a doctor of eyes. He may tell you it's wise To act now. Don't let help be deferred! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'visigoths sing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Near Cosenza the Visigoths sing Gloomy whispering hymns for their king: Neath a river's cool bed, They have buried the dead, So their foes can find nary a thing. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'stoops'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> She is forced to agree and defer, With a curtsy, a bow, and "Yes, sir." Ah, but next time she'll win, So she stifles a grin. She is down now she stoops to concur. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pests killed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> What pests killed my best apple tree? What critters are angering me? Isn't mites make me mad, But moth larvae, so bad— Just tail a brown-tail and you'll see! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'abolitionary forces'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Abolitionary forces, arise! Our cause is both worthy and wise. For freedom we've fought; We cannot be bought, And neither should those other guys. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'caregiver work'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I do caregiver's work, so I tend To some folks who can no longer fend For themselves. I feel use- ful when serving them juice And their meals, perhaps helping them mend. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'licensed pharmacists'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Licensed pharmacists ably dispense Most prescribed medications and hence, Lest some dose go awry, Make their clients supply Doctor's orders that clearly make sense. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'red rob'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At the airport, the claim agent said, "What color's your bag? Is it red?" Rob replied with a frown, "It's not red, it's dark brown. Can you find it before time for bed?" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'floridian wrote'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> That wonderful author, Joan Didion (Californian, not a Floridian) Wrote both wisely and well. Many stories she'd tell Spoke of actions both grand and quotidian. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alkahestic'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> So I come to the word alkahestic, And see it's (thank God!) anapestic. The solvent it names Is, by alchemists' claims, Universal and therefore majestic. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dition denotes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To have dition denotes holding sway; It's dominion in every which way. Those who rule with a hand Deemed of iron demand The respect of all those they survey. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'reading burghers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's a statue of certain renown Which can cause Reading burghers to frown. It's Victoria (Queen), And it's easily seen That she faces away from the town! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pet emyd'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My pet emyd is slow and ungainly. He's a fresh-water tortoise, and mainly He sits on a rock; If he moves, it's a shock. Chase a stick? He refuses profanely. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nigel'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dirk's as drunk as a dog, no dispute, Or a broom or a poet (that's cute), As a lord or a bat, A boiled owl, and that's that. Nigel's British. He's pissed as a newt. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'crucifix golden'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The police caught the burglar, depraved, With my crucifix, golden, engraved. Other items were sold For a profit how bold! But the cross on the thief had been saved. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'romance'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There is only one way to advance When it comes to the world of romance: You can't be afraid Of past errors you've made, So be bold. Shoot the works! Take a chance! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'would lady'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's a geezer who's making a call For his birthday, his hundredth, this fall. Would a lady perchance Care to come to his dance And enjoy a centennial ball? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'vegetarian substitutes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Vegetarian substitutes now? Not a choice that our bistros allow! That's our pledge. It's no bull — You can eat 'til you're full; With each bite you'll exclaim, "Wholly cow!" <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'four sixths'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you see that four sixths is two thirds, Then cross-multiply, do it in words: Six times two, four times three; They're both twelve, you'll agree. You all get it? You're certified nerds. <L...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'salad'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Hail, Caesar! This salad's for you — Grown by Cassius, Casca and crew. A conspiracy's not The plot meant by this lot: It's their veg plot. Hey, Brute ate two? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gamma sources'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Gamma sources (the rays' derivation, Born in nuclear shift / transformation) At high fluxes, they suck. Use lead shielding, or duck. Warning symbols? Not just decoration. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hip replacements'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You're another year older today. Happy birthday! Allow me to pay For the surgeries you Can't afford. You need two Hip replacements? Well, hip, hip, hooray! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'glutton'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My date went and called me a glutton 'Cause I ordered the large plate of mutton. Then she said, "Take it light And I might stay the night." Changed my mind. She can sure push that button! <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'atomic'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's number, there's mass, and there's weight. With atomic, these words all relate To the nuclear heft Of an element left, In a sense, on the physicist's plate. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'yankees'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Said my sprite, "This is elfland. Come in. Here white lies are the worst kind of sin. The dread angel of death Cannot steal your last breath, And more pennants the Yankees can't win." <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'brothers sang'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On TV in the '60s, two brothers Sang songs and did satire the Smothers. Their voices were great, But their satire I'd hate. That they'd shut up and sing was my druthers! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'optometrist chair'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The optometrist's chair is the locus Where your dioptry comes into focus. Put a lens to it and You will soon understand It is not all just hocus and pocus. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'billeting troops'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We're billeting troops on the nation, Imposing their domiciliation. They'll fill up your house, But you and your spouse Can indent for a tent at the station. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'stabbed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Suppose you were stabbed in the back. What protects you from such an attack? Is it corsets, or bustles? Epaxial muscles, If tense (for you'll stoop if they're slack). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'acephaline'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> With acephaline, Donna is critical: "It refers to a bug non-political. It's both non-transcendental And non-compartmental, And, invertebrates find, parasitical." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'get flu'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I awoke freezing cold, had a chill, Then felt hot (had a fever), felt ill. I surmised it was flu, And my wife thought so too. Get a flu shot next year? Yes, I will. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'laugh rahm'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Our Vice President's good for a laugh; Rahm Emanuel calls up his staff: "Folks, please don't look now — O's having a cow!" (While Biden is having a gaffe). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'entrepreneurialism'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Entrepreneurialism sets me aflame! To start and run firms is my aim. My whole stake is at stake For each risk that I take, Because "Flourish Or Fail!" is my game. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'aitch'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A letter named aitch did 'ide out To prove wen it isn't about Dat its lack spells da knell Of bot' 'eaven and 'ell And ruins t'ings for da devout. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mine punishing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Mine's a punishing, stressful profession. I must choose every word with discretion. Though I'm serving my nation, I need a vacation To unwind, simmer down: decompression. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pears'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> She purchased a basket of pears From an orchardist selling his wares At a stall of repute. And the weight of the fruit? Both were happy, so nobody cares. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'buck teeth'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Once the tooth fairy gladly would pay One thin dime for each tooth. Now kids say, "That's not nearly enough! We demand folding stuff!" Those darn kids all have buck teeth today. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'grouse'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A doctor named Gregory House, When quizzed by his minions, would grouse: "It isn't cirrhosis— The right diagnosis? It's lupus, or caused by a louse." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'michelangelo artist'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Michelangelo, artist of feeling, Is known for his Vatican ceiling: The Pope saw some faults In its featureless vaults And said, "Paint over that, Mike—it's peeling." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'jove temple'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I have just finished reading a tome About life in imperial Rome, And it gives me a thrill That the Capitoline Hill Was the place that Jove's temple called home. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'astronomical clusters'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Deep in space, shining objects are found In a swarm, gravitationally bound: Astronomical clusters To telescope lusters Bring joy, and the urge to expound. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'internet bustfulness'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'd spend all of my evenings in lustfulness, But my mother is full of disgustfulness. So I angle the screen Where it cannot be seen, And indulge in the internet's bustfulness. <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'annuity'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Auntie left me a major annuity, Paying interest in (yes) perpetuity, Though she lived in the back Of a broken-down shack. I am awed by this strange discongruity. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chapel'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In my chapel, there's no need to shout; I'm the father, I've plenty of clout. When my brothers and I See you're left high and dry, We'll down tools and cry, "Everyone out!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'boris purchases'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Boris purchases ten pounds of veal For a buck and a half—what a steal! It's a secret, he vows. (He knows someone in cows.) How I want to get in on that deal! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'clan'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We're all tribal; our own clan is great. We're a group: to our mates we relate. If we stick by our creed, As a team we'll succeed — And, with luck, may command our own fate. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'finest goose'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The coat was the loveliest brown And was filled with the finest goose down, But his girlfriend turned sulky— Complained, "It's too bulky! Did they run out of mink?" (with a frown). <LIMERICK...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'man slapped'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Foul fool, you have ruined my life! You have taken my beautiful wife!" So he cuffed the young man: Slapped him silly and ran — Now the wife's life is quite rife with strife. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'yale'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "I bring you glad tidings," said Gayle. "Your son's been accepted at Yale! But before you say 'yay,' I must darken your day— 'Cause your other son's headed for jail." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cast'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When my lover, a sailor named Jacques, Broke things off I was in for a shock. "Cast off!" he yelled; he Then sailed off without me, A poor cast-off alone on the dock. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'three'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> One for you, two for me don't look sore. Round again three for you, I get four. Don't complain, try to smile As my much larger pile Proves my avarice helps me grab more. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'miss bryant'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Oklahoma's Miss Bryant won praise. Making music then filled up her days. Later on, she was selling Some juice and then telling Us not to grant rights to the gays. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'food critics'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Many food critics English folk follow Have two things in common: they wallow In any alignment That shows their refinement, And choose in dire French all they swallow. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pesky ants'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In my home I'm the one wearing pants, But don't bother my wife's precious plants. Although she's a dear, If I harm them, I fear She'll treat me as she treats pesky ants. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'disguising bottomless'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you're counterdependent, your shell Is disguising a bottomless well. You're standoffish, remote, Disinclined to emote; Underneath, though, you're needy as hell. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'correlations'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A great rock song and beautiful ballad: You'll find correlations invalid, Like comparing two fruits, Just one way of which suits — If they're part of a jumbled-up salad. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'alien cloaked'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The alien's cloaked in a robe, And he's holding a scope and a strobe. It's my colon this creep Will inspect as I sleep— It's a deep diverticular probe! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'crocodile lives'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The crocodile lives in the river, And his jaws can deliver a shiver. As he's smirking beneath That great mouth full of teeth, He's contriving to dine on my liver. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nick'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Nick the Nicker was boasting, "I'm quicker Than the filth, who are ploddingly thicker," But it seems that the cops Have kept tabs on his ops, And now Nick's in the nick, so who's slicker? <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'quail'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You're ecaudate. The word makes you quail? That just means you're without any tail. Though in your case I'd guess, Since you lack all finesse, It just might mean with women you fail. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'stern boss'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My new job's at a radio station. I forgot its identification — The call letters. Groaned My stern boss when I phoned, "I am texting you that information." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'credit notes'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Given credit notes, people believe In the cash that they hope to receive For the goods that you bought; Otherwise, they are fraught By the thought that you're out to deceive. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mad cannibal'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The mad cannibal ran to the church, Where he hung from a dangerous perch. Then he yelled from the steeple, "I'm fed up with people, And white-meat and dark-meat research!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'estranged'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I was close with my mom. Something changed. We don't talk anymore. We're estranged. One fall day she got miffed And created this rift. Trump's election has made her deranged. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bowyer guy'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A bowyer's a guy who makes bows; You can meet him at archery shows. And you'll find he's the sort That is thrilled by the sport— He's aquiver from hairline to toes. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bulk foods'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If bulk foods will be shipped to your gate, Just be sure you can handle the rate— Or you'll have to forget That new dining-room set And spend suppertime perched on the crate. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'billy brain'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Near a cookie-filled jar, or a tin, Billy's brain cells go into a spin, And they just can't command Billy's blameworthy hand, Which is culpably groping within. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'biological parents'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Biological parents are free— If they wish—to beget and then flee. Caring people who opt Both to seek and adopt Others' children are heroes to me. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fur sporran'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'm a stickler for fashion's decrees In respect of my knobbly knees. My fur sporran looks swell And coordinates well With my kilt and my tartan chemise. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'swindler blackleg'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You're a swindler, a blackleg, a crook, And you've tried every trick in the book. You'd ensure that you win; Beat it now save your skin, And just pray to be let off the hook. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'wife'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Yeah, but..." "He got the job you were due." "Yeah, but..." "And twice the salary too." "Yeah, but..." "Look at his wife!" "Yeah, but..." "God, what a life!" "Yeah, but..." "Yeah, but? Is that it? ...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'say bum'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Show some pep! Get a job!" I just frowned. Let me lie on a beach and get browned Or read comics all day. On my ass I will stay. Maybe that's why they say "bum around." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'kid threw'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though I'm bone tired and feeling quite sick, Since you're here, there's a bone I must pick With you, as your kid Threw a rock and then hid. Fix the glass. As for him, use this stick. <LIMERIC...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sunshine evaporates'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Careful probing uncovers what's true As the sunshine evaporates dew. Therefore, lie, if you will: It may serve you, until What is genuine slowly shows through. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sweat'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Need no diaphoretic to sweat 'Cause my brow is already quite wet. Since my girl broke the news, She's a case of the blues — Seems her "regular friend" ain't shown yet. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'boonmaster job'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A boonmaster's job: to survey A town's roads so that all were okay. He was also in charge Of repairs, small or large, So a pothole would not spoil your day. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'judicial award'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The judicial award that I fought For was modest, or that's what I thought, But the court wasn't swayed. The adjudgment it made Came up short of the money I'd sought. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'boz travels'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> At thirty, Boz travels the States. He would see what delight there awaits. Then American Notes Grabs his hosts by their throats, And twists. Such acerbity grates. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'health nuts'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Some bakers like bread to have shine: Dull loaves just won't sell, they opine. So they're brushed, before baking, With an egg wash, thus making A gloss, so some health-nuts decline. <LIMERICK...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'flails'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Most fearsome of all of the flails Is the cat that's the cat o' nine tails. The tar began stripping, Just dreading his whipping. It took the wind out of his sails. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mrs gaskell'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Mrs. Gaskell, the author, stayed true In her written attempt to pursue The spirit of her day. This she sought to portray In her novels and short stories, too. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'china sea'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dug a hole down to China, to flee A Canadian judge's decree, But came out in the ocean And lacked locomotion To survive in that vast China Sea. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'metal'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you're seeking to learn, or to know, The state of a metal on show, There's no need to feel vexed: Docimology text Will aid you wherever you go. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mrs sprat'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Mrs. Sprat broiled her husband a hake That Jack thought was a fishy mistake. "I prepared it like scrod As they do on Cape Cod. It's a gadoid," said she, "for gosh sake." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'penmanship'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In cursive she's penning her story Of trysts with three dashing signori. Her penmanship nourishes Purple-prose flourishes In curlicued, loop-the-loop glory. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'shove'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In your car, all your junk tightly shove (From the garage or loft up above), And then spread it around In large heaps on the ground At a car boot sale foragers love. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'notching posts'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Notching posts to bear structural beams Is more difficult work than it seems. To use studs that are light And extend them full height Are balloon framing's principal themes. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'therapist'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My therapist thought he could make All my bad habits go. Big mistake! I still smoke and drink, And I swear without think... Stop hitting me, dammit! You snake! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'collection tin'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I own up with this niggardly tale. The collection tin: that's where I fail. Yes, I'll have to come clean And admit that I'm mean: Shoving buttons in, tapped with my nail. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'toss reason'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Through frustration that will not abate, I am in an expostulatory state — I argue the toss, Reason well with my boss, To let me take control of my fate. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dan'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dan declared to his dad, Dr. Smith: "I admire your life." (That's a myth.) "Son, go forth," Dad would say, "In the world. Make your way." But Dan spurned this advice and went fifth. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pollen'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> From a flower when pollen is switched To another one's stigma that's hitched To a plant they both share Geitonogamy's their Way to clinch they're botanically stitched. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'yankee doodles'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Damned Colonials mocked us today: Blew our armory, melted away. Yankee Doodles won't fight, But they're out there all right: A provokingly guileful display. <LIMERICK_END>
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