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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'beach volleyball'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Beach volleyball," Nathan attests, "Is exactly the game it suggests." Why's this sport number one? "Lots of sand, lots of sun, Lots of barely clad buttocks and breasts!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mary'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Though Mary was kind and vivacious, Her rear was abnormally spacious. 'Twas a right royal farce, Finding clothes for her arse, But a field tent was quite efficacious. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'flowers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Fresh-cut flowers can counteract gloom," Read a letter signed "Daisy McBloom." The writer's advice Is both clear and concise, But that name is assumed, I assume. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'canakin'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "You've got canakin, stay in your bed. I expect, in a week, you'll be dead. It's an obsolete word For the plague (so I've heard). You can pay your bill now," the Doc said. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thaumatrope ah'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "An enorthotrope! What could that be? Please explain these twelve letters to me. I'm confused. I'm in doubt. Could you please help me out?" "It's a thaumatrope." "Ah! Now I see." <LIMERICK...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cowboying'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> He's been cowboying all of his life. He's adept with a rope and a knife. His day isn't full Without ridin' a bull. He prefers his cayuse to his wife. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'wedding'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I explained that I'm very traditional. No wedding? No sex. Unconditional. "That's a problem," he said, "As I'm not getting wed Unless forced to in ways avolitional." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'filthy'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "He's filthy and stinks; where's he been?" "That's our drag man, the last to ride in, After hours trailing steers. By the time he appears, There's a thick crust of dust on his skin." <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'drainage'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's a ridge Bridget showed us with pride. Water flows different ways down each side: Left goes west; right goes east. When the rainfall's increased, We give thanks for our drainage divide. <LIM...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'zookeeper fred'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The gate at the neighborhood zoo Had been trampled and rendered askew. Said the zookeeper, Fred, "If our gnus have all fled, Then we must find another, anew." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'linguistics'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If linguistics is your cup of tea, Glottological studies may be Your profession of choice. Language makes you rejoice? You're a linguaphile nerd, just like me. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'crew brigadoon'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On the shore of a tiny lagoon Was constructed a crude barracoon Where the convicts were held, And, moreover, compelled To perform (for the crew) Brigadoon. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cottonmouth venomous'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The cottonmouth: venomous snake— Not my orifice when I awake, Nor a mouth when it's wide With a dentist inside Or pink candy a circus might make. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cat drove'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Her husband is trapped like a rat, And he needs extrication. This cat Drove straight offa this pier." "In these waters? Oh, dear! That great white! Get the Jaws of Life! Stat!" <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'stripping paper'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Phew, it's hot stripping paper. I'm reeling," Said Sue, "And may soon start a-peeling." "Sounds appealing to me," I responded, "Feel free, Girl—your décor rate's just hit the ceiling." <...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'blind boone'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As the son of a slavegirl, Blind Boone Never had that proverbial spoon, But, with talent in bags, He made riches from rags As he artfully tailored each tune. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'soldiers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> These soldiers were fighting a war, But it's clear that they'll battle no more. The body bags full Of our patriots pull At our heartstrings and tear at our core. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'shakespeare'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Bad quartos of Shakespeare that cling To odd errors of text still would bring Many printers big money. Though goofs could be funny, Who cares, since "The pay is the thing." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'food cake'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Bring food," said her nagging Aunt Mable, "To add to our Thanksgiving table." She stayed up to bake A sweet angel food cake, But then ate it at home watching cable. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'convention'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I've a fact that deserves a brief mention, But it shouldn't distract your attention. So a footnote1 I'll place On this page, at the base, With a number; for that's the convention. <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cherry mean'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When I say "have a cherry," I mean Prunus avium, known as the gean. This sweet or wild cherry May well be what Mary Saw bow to her fetus serene. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'litter'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This message was posted on Twitter: "A fall, three or four, from some critter Now lives 'neath my house. Each one squeaks like a mouse." (And by fall, what they're meaning is litter.) <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'favorite deodorant'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My favorite deodorant's Ban, And I use it whenever I can. Through its chemical power I smell like a flower, Offend neither woman nor man. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'jugular sheesh'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Trump just goes for the jugular. Sheesh! It's appalling to watch him unleash Loathsome insults and sneers And pure plays on folks' fears. Of Roy Cohn, he's a wretched pastiche. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'southerly heavens'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> View the southerly heavens with care; You'll find Norma and Circinus there. Seems like heavenly fools Have abandoned their tools— They're the architect's Compass and Square. <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'allowable news'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> They open your mail every day; And they limit the things you can say; And allowable news Fits the government's views, In a censor-y overload way. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'trochaic writing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Correspondency: this is archaic. Anapaestic it is, not trochaic. Writing letters today, Correspondence we say (Romantic or simply prosaic). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hindi fellas'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A respectful Karnataka guy Will address every woman with bai, But in Uttar Pradesh, Hindi fellas are fresh And undress every bai with the eye. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'eyes shine'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's corny, he knows, but he tries His luck: "Oh, your beautiful eyes Shine like stars, and it's clear..." But it's met with a sneer, And something inside of him dies. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'shampoo special'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My husband just purchased shampoo— Special formula, something quite new. The result was explosive; He found it corrosive. He's bald, red, and itchy. He'll sue. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'wear sun'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When I bodysurf down at the shore, I wear sun block. What helps even more Is my suit made of armor— Though hardly a charmer— Without it my belly gets sore. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'triplets'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When our triplets were born, we weren't wed. In the courtroom, the magistrate said: "I declare you're the dad Of the offspring you've had. Thus I filiate Ed, Ted and Ned." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'outfit'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your outfit is chichi! It's mod! You should wear that when going abroad! It's so trendy, it's great! I must buy one—can't wait! Just the sight of it makes me feel awed! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'peering inside'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you're an old fogey, like me, Who likes peering inside his PC, Though you rummage around Some things just won't be found; The accumulator's too small to see. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hoodoos'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The hoodoos and arches arouse Awe and wonder; the scenery wows. In the words of Eb Bryce, Who was clear and concise, "It's a helluva place to lose cows!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'musical rent'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The story is timeless: he fails; Our protagonist suffers in jails. This ol' country lament Pays the musical rent, When played in the saddest of scales. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'buddhist enlightenment'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To the Buddhist, enlightenment's path Shows a certain immutable math: Whether eightfold or four, This religion's got more Numbered points than the other ones hath. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'shape'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> All my clothing, hand-sewn (custom-made), Using fabric that's only top-grade, In the patterns I love, Fits my shape like a glove— Though I'm built like a blimp, I'm afraid. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'critical flow'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Through an orifice, nozzle, or spout Gas, compressed, from a vessel streams out At its critical flow If sufficiently low Outside pressures are kept, round about. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cornflower field'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's a cornflower field I walk through In my best dress of cornflower blue. I remember the day When you drifted away; Still there's nothing I need more than you. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sailor'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Canvas climber? That's me, 'Salty' Taylor. The Atlantic's my home, on a whaler. For great paintings I search So upon them I'll perch? Not at all. That just means I'm a sailor. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cartilage grows'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Chondrogenesis: cartilage grows. It produces your ears and your nose (Where it channels each sneeze), Cushions joints such as knees, And some stuff that you'd never suppose. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'swallowed rat'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The mellowest fellow I've met, Having swallowed a rat on a bet, Had allowed, as he died From the chomping inside, That it might have been something he et. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'font appears'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Ben, I'm grateful you've sent me the blues For review. I'm afraid there's bad news: There are gaps in the copy; The font appears sloppy. My green light? I'll have to refuse. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'eugenic'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "With a compound I've mixed that's arrhenic, My experiment's goal is eugenic. I'll improve human genes And the race by this means." "You're delusional, daft, schizophrenic!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'despair'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I recently suffered a scare And have since been beset by despair. But that trend's been reversed, And I'm over the worst: I'll bounce back from this crisis, I swear. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'creature abuse'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Act of God"? That's our feeble excuse For disaster we didn't deduce. If you blame the Big Guy Then you shouldn't be shy; Why not call it "dumb creature abuse"? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'espresso'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When espresso and milk's not enough, The barista can add extra stuff; So her patrons request "Crappuccino" in jest, And she'll improvise crap off the cuff. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chewable pills'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'm puzzled by chewable pills. Why masticate pills for your ills? I swallow mine quick As I can when I'm sick And at chewables head for the hills. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hill lobbied'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A lawyer on Capitol Hill Lobbied hard, but his work came to nil. A levy he sought Wouldn't come, so they thought, Even close toward footing the bill. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'smiles'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Although silence, at times, can be nice, At my party I tried to entice Lots of smiles from each guest, But I failed in my quest. Then I farted and that broke the ice. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sid'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Sid the Slasher, a con with a knife, Took a blade to his pretty, young wife, Then, in prison, went nuts, Stabbing Nick in the guts. Will his sentence be lengthened to life? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'askew'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In high school, I earned me a letter That was crooked when sewn on my sweater. When they said, "That's askew." I said, "What's it to you? I askew, could you've done any better?" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mean starvation'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Tell me, folks of each nation and station, Do we want deindustrialisation? Fresher air, cleaner seas, Less disease and more trees— We want these ... but would that mean starvation? <LIMER...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'passing exams'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If passing exams is your aim, The compare and contrast you must tame. Sources vary, so learn To precisely discern What's alike, and what's not quite the same. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sue weighed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My ancestress Great-grandma Sue Weighed six hundred pounds (yes, it's true). And that factoid is why, I explain with a sigh, I've been dieting since I was two. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'make merry'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Might the wee folk imbibe and make merry ('Tis incurved, Lilliputian and hairy) At the lip of this growth? I declare, 'pon my oath, 'Tis a proper cup, apt for a fairy. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tying rope'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Tying rope to an anchor, my friend? Use the knot called a fisherman's bend. Drop it over the side And it won't come untied, But remember—hold on to the end. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bumbailiff curious'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A bumbailiff's a curious sort Of a fellow who works for the court. He may act like a drudge Doing chores for the judge, But he's skillful, so don't sell him short. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'five boroughs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The Five Boroughs have chutzpah to spare: There's "da Bronx"; suave Manhattan has flair; A World's Fair held in Queens; Brooklyn's team-razzing scenes; Staten Island's the one over there. <...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'arabian camel'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I rashly attempted to trammel A beastly Arabian camel. I jumped on its hump, And got dumped on my rump— Only chumps try to mount such a mammal! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'double magnum'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A whole double magnum seemed fitting To honor the jury's acquitting. But a huge dose of wine Left me feeling not fine; This morning my head was just splitting. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'appealing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A client with whom I am dealing Is affectless (showing no feeling). With his lack of emotion, Like warmth or devotion, His dates find him less than appealing. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rare'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In mathematics, a term that is rare Is the acnode, which states with great care That this point may still get To be one of the set Though apart from the rest, like a spare. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'form 10'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Form 10-K is an annual sort Of compulsory business report. U.S. law clearly states You must file by key dates, Else you're likely to end up in court. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'bat uses'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A bat uses echolocation As it flies to its next destination. There's a call it emits That rebounds when it hits Something solid—it's sound navigation. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'babushka doll'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A Babushka doll! What lies inside? A Babushka doll! Crafted with pride, More Babushka dolls still Are discovered until With a family of dolls you're supplied. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'poisonous vanity'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I try to envision humanity Unflawed by its poisonous vanity. As guardians of Earth We should value its worth— Put a stop to our current insanity. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chironomid'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A chironomid's one of those midges That are found around lakes and neath bridges— A mosquito-like sight, But polite—they don't bite, So your skin's not in lumpy red ridges. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'painting'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I worked on the painting for days In hopes the professor would praise, And not call my work junk. But he said it was sunk By my aberrant anchoring gaze. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'camaraderies die'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Once your enemy's jackboot descends, Others turn from you, make no amends. Without wherefore or why, Camaraderies die. They forsake us, our fair-weather friends. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'kindle desire'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> He deduced from her flimsy attire Her intention to kindle desire. In her boudoir, he knew, Was a bed made for two— And her girlfriend. His hopes rose no higher. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dead dates'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Drop-dead dates for my payments I hate: They're those dates beyond which you won't wait. Should I be a day late, Your revenge will be great And I'll suffer a terrible fate. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'balderdash bunkum'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "That's balderdash, bunkum, and crap!" I exclaim to that blathering chap Spouting nonsense and bosh, As we finish our nosh And prepare for our mid-morning nap. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'copd'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You have COPD, with its wheezes, As well as comorbid diseases: Chronic ills. You have four. Let's not add to that more Complications no colds, coughs, or sneezes. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'boldface type'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Their most brazen, egregious hype Would be printed in boldface, a type Where the letters are fatter, To suggest that the matter Wasn't bold-faced and impudent tripe. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'displacement'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Quite content to indulge self effacement, I'm about to discover displacement. My wife and a crony Will talk rigatoni While I read a book in the basement. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'lead cobalt'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My pooch found a box in the park, Raised the lid, and then started to bark. The container was lead. ("Cobalt 60" it read.) To my dread, he now glows in the dark. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cembra nut'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The cembra nut tree is Swiss pine. And its resins and nuts?—they're both fine. It's an evergreen tree, And it always will be A particular favorite of mine. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cheliferous fellow'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A cheliferous fellow is he, Who can't handle but mangles his tea. With his ill-shapen claw, He stuffs food in his maw As he scuttles and hops off the quay. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'gigi larue'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Young Billy loved Gigi LaRue — He would chat on the phone all day through. She said, "Phoning is nice, But I can't hear it twice. Could you send me a note? Billet-doux!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'featherbed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Don't cosset, don't featherbed Guy — Every day Pothead works he gets high!" "I'd attempt to be rough, Make his job a bit tough, But he shares what he puffs, so why try?" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'embryoniform stones'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Embryoniform stones from the shore — What on earth are you keeping them for?" "They reside on the shelf, As they look like yourself In my womb before birth. Nothing more." <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sentence'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Context-free? In each sentence? No jest? Every phrase is discrete in the test. Each one stands all alone. Please don't curse me or groan. My grammar's just headed out West. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'danube'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Which river through ten countries flows, Inspiring a waltz as it goes, From its Black Forest source To the Black Sea? Of course! It's the Danube, as everyone knows! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'spotty youths'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Be off, spotty youths, get ye home, And resist your desire for to roam. Leave us be, we're good folk— Bugger off! I don't joke: Look ye here at my mouth—see the foam! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tinkle'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To jingle, to tinkle: to ging; A sound like a soft gentle ring. Bound by babbling brook, Now near nibbling nook, Here the fairy-folk cook, dance and sing. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cerium valence'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "This compound is ceric," I swore, "Since its cerium's valence is four." "If the valence is three, Then it's cerous," said he. (We were chemists, just checking the score.) <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dactylospasm today'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A dactylospasm, today, Left me wondering just what to say. When the fellow had reckoned I'd silently beckoned, This came to my lips: "Go away." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fairylike fingers'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your fairylike fingers are limp. More effort is needed: don't skimp. Just give it some welly And on comes the telly — That button press harder, you wimp! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'latex condoms'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The class laughed and called Mary a fool. The teacher explained, "As a rule, If safe sex is your quest, Latex condoms are best, Not those lambskins you brought into school." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'clive'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A rowdy young redneck named Clive Once started a brawl in a dive. He was looking for fun, But he didn't get none. Now he's lucky to still be alive. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'antimarket'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Those who live in a Communist land Know that choices aren't many at hand. Antimarket's the course That their leaders endorse. I'm so glad we're not buying that brand. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'airplane goner'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This old airplane's a goner, no doubt. "You must jump for your life!" came the shout. So I checked on my chute, Then saluted the lieut, And I went through the door, bailing out. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cue ball'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Eddie Felson's last shot wasn't clean— The black eight ball was sitting between The cue ball and nine. The game should have been mine, But his bank shot just ruined the scene. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'two paintings'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> These two paintings are hinged, like a book. On the altar they stand (need no hook). They relate to each other, Like sister and brother. For balance, give each a good look. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cheesecake'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "I want cheesecake!" he shouted (not blurtlessly), "Eat your spinach," said Mom, all divertlessly. "It's yucky!" He flung It and stuck out his tongue, But felt he was punished desertlessly. <L...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dynamite'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A terrorist rookie named Tom Used some dynamite making a bomb, So his blast would be loud. "You can see I'm a proud Dynamitist," claimed Tom with aplomb. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'nat ran'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The race at Joe's bar was dramatic; Nat ran fast. All the guys were emphatic When they bet he would win, But he slipped on spilled gin. In his heel, bones were spread—diastatic. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'file'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A curvy young airling from Wales Applied for a job tracking sales. When asked, "Can you file?" She proceeded to smile, And to hold up ten pretty red nails. <LIMERICK_END>
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