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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'proper treatments'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> With life's pressures and meds, for Pete's sake, Proper treatments are no piece of cake. Disarrayed and distraught, You're a chaos of thought, And that busy brain keeps you awake. <LIME...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'comely siren'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Given only one eighth of this shield, It's not easy to fill in that field. No most comely siren Will fit in this gyron. Watch this space for when all is revealed. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dika tree'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The dika's a tree that's existent In places (for me) that are distant. Only fools will dispute It's got mango-like fruit, And the wood from it's termite resistant. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'good claudio'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> No, not dead but the wedding, though started, Has fallen apart. He's departed, And she's been belied. What to do? Say she's died, And good Claudio won't stay hard-hearted. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dermabrasion'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dermabrasion is fine, I suppose, Sanding skin from your head to your toes. My wife Jane saw a quack (Through the fence, round the back); Now she's missing one ear and her nose. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fame gridder'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My dad claims he's a hall-of-fame gridder, But I'm starting to think he's a kidder. He seems short (four feet nil) To play football. I will All the rest of his yarns reconsider. <LIMERICK_EN...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hot oil'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To bespatter's to spot, splash, or soil, As occurs when some water you boil. Now, the water won't hurt If it gets on your shirt, But the same can't be said for hot oil. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'orange bitters'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When I ordered, the bartender said, "You want Amer Picon?" scratched his head. "Orange bitters with gentian? It's too rare to mention! I'll use Angostura instead." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'comet ethereal'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A comet's ethereal trail Is formed by the dust in its tail. Comet Halley you'll see On a clear night for free Every seventy-six years without fail. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'divorce'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Dissolution of marriage: a phrase That implies you have seen better days. While a term like divorce May seem harsher, of course, They're the same in all meaningful ways. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'drift apart'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's no sudden defection or split But a breaking away bit by bit. It's a bearable way, For two people as they Drift apart, to delay "This is it!" <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cheek'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> On her cheek was an ugly red pimple That she ceaselessly scratched, pure and simple, So it scarred; in its place, There's a hole in her face, Which she hopes you'll mistake for a dimple. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'froggy bricks'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Arrange brickwork with frogs on the top." "Froggy bricks? That's ridiculous, Pop." "In our mason's profession, The shallow depression Is your frog. Get to work, man chop-chop!" <LIMERICK_E...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'class act'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "I'm a class act," she boasts as we natter. I tell her, "My darling, you flatter; You're phony. In fact, It's the former you've lacked— Though you've certainly put on the latter." <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'naming genders'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Every book in our school, every text, Is degenderized; kids are perplexed. When a sex text surrenders, And stops naming genders, We shrug and we wonder—what's next? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'congress'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Some say Congress is barnacled: marred By old customs they ought to discard — Such as time-honored traits On which progress yet waits. But old habits are ones that die hard. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'barostat'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A barostat's job is it keeps Even pressure in planes or in peeps. While the structure will sense When your blood gets more dense, The device measures air as it seeps. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'prohibition'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When the thirty-sixth state voted "dry", The Volstead Act stemmed drink's supply. All the same, Prohibition Got no opposition From crooks who made millions thereby. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'demonship'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> All the pain that you love to dish out! All the godly behavior you flout! Well, your sins are the worst — You're a devil; you're cursed, So your demonship isn't in doubt. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'plasma'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We learned solid and liquid and gas Are our planet's three aspects of mass. Also, plasma is got When a gas gets real hot: It's the latest to join in this class. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tether real'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My name is an alias. Whether I like being free of the tether A real name can be Is what I mean to see, For I'm somebody else altogether. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'voiceless'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We were shocked. A debilitating stroke Left her voiceless, immobile and broke. Is there hope? Not a trace; Now she occupies space: A young mother whose life's up in smoke. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'jeff fast'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In the back is guitar-playing Murray Next to Jeff, fast asleep with no worry. And while Anthony eats Lots of fruit (nixing sweets), Greg is driving all day in no hurry. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cornett spelling'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A cornett? Spelling error, you think. But it's not, I reply with a wink, For unlike a cornet, This one's wood, you can bet. If in Germany, ask for a Zink. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hippos'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Bloats of hippos? I think that term's great, Since it points to a hippo-like trait, But be careful, my friend, And try not to offend. Clearly some might be watching their weight. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'greenhorns morale'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In the desert, their campfire should Boost the greenhorns' morale—but there could Be a fly in the ointment, To cause disappointment: A deficience (a shortage) of wood. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'old flame'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your claim is that you're my old flame, But my memory's gone what's your name? Well, it's not that I doubt — Guess I rubbed you right out. You're erased, you effaceable dame. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pastors'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Cosmologically speaking, I'd say That most pastors get carried away With their Genesis queries, Creationist theories, And claims that God made us with clay. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'birthday'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Same birthday? We're thus coetaneous. Our existences? They're contemporaneous, But I'd like you to know That I'm happy to go Through my life on my own—you're extraneous! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'filipino'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> From the Philippines? You're Filipino. From LA? Well then, you're Angeleno. A place often claims Its own brood by these names. Born in Reno? You're "Some guy from Reno." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'richter'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If buildings I'd built were built stricter, These aftershocks (6 on the Richter) Would leave them unbreaking. But rumbling and shaking Surprised me, for I'm no predictor. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'space thing'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> This strange space-thing broke out of its pod And looked just like my uncle. How odd! More are stealing our lives. Still, if mankind survives, This will make a great movie, by God! <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chemtrail'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A chemtrail's a trail in the sky That's left by a plane flying by. Conspiracists say It's a secretive way To control folks but that's just a lie. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'clouds'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Massive pillows of rounded grey cloud Shade this day like a big, fluffy shroud, Fill the air with the static Of storms, quite dramatic— Cumulonimbus—these clouds should be proud. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'album eponymously'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> He's self-made, self-assured, self-proclaimed, So his album's eponymously named. It's called, plainly, Me, Jim, With a photo of him On the jewel case, impressively framed. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'folk music'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Simple tunes, poignant lyrics, clear beat Make the songs of the people so sweet! Good old folk music stays To cure social malaise, But we miss all the Seegers (like Pete). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'slim'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Out of shape? If I may, let me broach An ameliorative approach: Cut the carbs, join a gym— That should help you to slim. If you still don't improve, get a coach. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pope briefs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> As the papal abbreviator, I Shall draw up the pope's briefs. You ask why Papal undies require Such care. Not attire But papers I'll shortly supply. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'aigre'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I know aigre is sour or bitter. I learnt that from my French baby-sitter (He was handsome, I keen; But I was just thirteen) When I made him my first apple fritter. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'philandering boar'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "Just get out, you philandering boar!" Shrieks his wife, keen to settle the score; He has broken his vow And looks shattered right now— Like the plates that lie smashed on the floor. <L...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'beanstalk'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> He is furious, ultra-annoyed, That the beanstalk is being destroyed By an axe-wielding lad Who will only be glad When the giant falls into the void. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'two tires'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Let's try walking, for that's where it's at. And then soon we'll be thinner than Sprat. Of course, we've no choice Plus no cause to rejoice, For two tires on the car are aflat. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'project dazed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> By the scope of this project I'm dazed. Sometimes members go nuts—they get crazed. When they edit all night ("That is wrong!" "This is right!"), Their poor eyes are exhausted and glazed. <L...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chaff useful'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> If you scatter aluminum strips Half the wavelength of radar, it trips The receivers to seeing A blip when you're fleeing. Chaff's useful for planes and for ships. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'castrated horse'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A gelding's a castrated horse, Or a donkey or mule. Of course The result of castration Is major negation Of equine hormonal-fuelled force. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'economy looms'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When our captains of industry fall, Debts are massive and savings are small, When prime ministers lose And the pound's in the news, The economy looms above all. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'current affairs'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Some examples of current affairs Are the doings of Bushes and Blairs, News of hostages missing, And senators kissing Their secretaries under the stairs. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'breasted vessels'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When taut-breasted vessels are stowed, The breasting-face timbers erode. What helps is a camel (Marine, not the mammal) To bear and distribute the load. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hurricanes widely'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Hurricanes widely are hated; Their destruction seems random, not fated. Simple walks on the beach Become quite out of reach 'Til the storm has passed by, or abated. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'parallel park'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To parallel park is a breeze: Into tight spots adeptly you'll squeeze. All four wheels turn the same; Merely focus and aim, As you crab steer with consummate ease. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'forsythia'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I once had a gardening fling When I planted some shrubs near my swing. With flowers bright yellow, They make me feel mellow: Forsythia signals the spring. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ford crown'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "A defleeted old Ford Crown Victoria!" Cried a man with the glow of euphoria. "Though no longer a rental, Her charm's elemental. Bet she'll love it back home in Peoria." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'body language'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Your posture and gestures express Many thoughts that you may not confess. Body language is such That you needn't say much; Truth be told, you can even speak less. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'estate'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Our big hair house—it really looks great: Columns, statues, a huge gilded gate. That's the lottery money I've spent for my honey. We've named it The Screw-You Estate. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rome depended'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In the year 305 Rome depended On an emperor strong, rich and splendid. As Galerius known, It was latterly shown That his hatred of Christians had ended. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'affair'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> You have heard it already folks care That you live from affair to affair. And you know I foretold That your babe would grow cold From your goating around God knows where. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cosecant ratio'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The cosecant's a ratio—no fake— Of two sides of right triangles. Take The leg opposite C Over that facing B. C's the right angle—easy to make! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'dry'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My mom washed my mouth out with lye, Then she swore up a storm in reply. So my ears were the next To be scrubbed; I was vexed As an aurilave burnished them dry. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'oedilf'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The OEDILF is just barely begun. It will be quite some time ere it's done. There's a million or two Lim'ricks still left to do — An aeonian project, but fun! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'pillows aerothermodynamics'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> After dark, though I hide in my bed, I still suffer from blows to my head. It's the wind with its billows Pounding me with my pillows: Aerothermodynamics, 'tis said. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'god egotheism'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My religion has brought me much grief, Though the list of my dogmas is brief. Just three words, which seems odd, Say it all: I am God. Egotheism—that's my belief. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'brother unfortunate'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Was my brother unfortunate? Very! He believed in "eat, drink, and be merry!" He stayed drunk and got fat, So remarkably that He's the first that we needed to bury. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'seven dominicus'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Of days of the week we have seven, Dominicus (first) there to leaven Or lighten the others, The day Christian brothers Should worship and rest it's just heaven! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'mint jelly'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Great good fortune today came my way. A pup entered my yard, a sad stray. He was cute as a button And tasted like mutton; Mint jelly enhanced his bouquet. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'croydon'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's a hairdo that's named for a place. Call it Croydon or council house face- lift, or Essex, resulting In classist insulting— A stigma we ought to erase. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'chopsticks'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> To lift up, from my plate, mu shu pork, I prefer, over chopsticks, a fork. It works great—although now I am called at Foo Chow "Mr. Yankee Effectiveness Dork." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'stakes used'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A defensive arrangement of stakes, Used in fields or in rivers or lakes: Estacade is its name (And in French it's the same). Build it well, and do not make mistakes! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'attach things'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> We use numerous things to attach Things that break, like a rubbery patch Or some glue or some string, 'Cause we all tend to cling To those heirlooms that fate tries to snatch. <LIMERICK_END...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'coerced'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Stuff you force me to do is the worst; You get off on my being coerced. And then later on You're a pretty nice john. So what is it with you, foist things first? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ore extracted'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Down below where the sun never shines, Ore's extracted from dangerous mines. To the surface it's rushed Where it's typically crushed; After screening, the "crumbs" are called fines. <LIMERI...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'ranks bullet'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> After three had departed the ranks, "Bullet Boob" slyly paid up with thanks To the starter and said, "Well, the fastest are dead, So perhaps you should switch back to blanks." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'flew'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> She flew through the air with such ease, My Aerial, named on the breeze. But as she got older And more like a boulder, 'Twas Areal—ground—if you please. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'carrie asleep'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In her carry-cot, Carrie's asleep; Eyes are closed and her breathing is deep. Although travel with babies I fear more than rabies, In this bed, she's made not a peep. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'cloak'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> How much does it cost for a pall To cloak my chum's body and all? So uncovered in death — Yes, it does take my breath, And is stinky enough to appall. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'regular solids'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The geometry student will pass If he studies the bodies in class: Tetrahedrons and cubes Are examples—and boobs? They're not regular solids, alas. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'birdman'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A birdman is one of those guys Who sells birds, or who watches the skies To learn all about birds (Ornithology nerds), Or a pilot who actually flies. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'thoughts lag'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My dad's searching for words brings such pain. We expect, it's increasingly plain, As clear thoughts lag behind And bedimmed grows his mind, A near-total eclipse of the brain. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'fy meant'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> It's an obsolete usage, that's true, So it's known to a limited few. I would never have guessed The word fy meant "digest", So I'm sharing this morsel with you. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'firmware'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The word firmware sounds strange, and you might Think its meaning is "clothes that fit tight". You'd be wrong though my son; A computer, to run, Must contain some to make it go right. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'daughters three'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Daughters three, but it isn't quite clear Who's the one holding daddy most dear. Two promise their love While the third gets a shove. What a trio, this queer band o' Lear. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'indian bank'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When you robbed that East Indian bank, Your escape method totally stank. You were caught in your scam While you ran, on the lam. Now the cutwal has you in the tank! <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tennis'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When, in tennis, you're serving a set, And your serve always goes in the net, Then your score will be low, And deservedly so— You will merit the love that you get. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'darkened urine'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A victim of blackwater makes Darkened urine, has fever, and aches. The word also means waste- water—viewed with distaste, As are Blackwater's current mistakes. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'means guest'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In list after list, you can learn It means "guest becomes family." Spurn That spurious host! Agenhina's a ghost Word a lexical pratfall (from Byrne). <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'biotelemetric device'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A biotelemetric device Offers measurements—cool and precise. From afar I can note With my TV remote That my wife is now colder than ice. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'candidate polling'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The candidate, polling behind, A new policy quickly defined. "I pledge that no way Will prejudice sway, If I win; 'cos I'll act color-blind." <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'emancipationists'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My forebears were not liberationists, So they clashed with obsessed emancipationists. After slaves were all freed, A new family creed Was adopted: we're firm segregationists. <LIMERICK_...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sold weed'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> I'm in serious trouble, alas. It seems no one will give me a pass. I'm a scared teen-age fool 'Cause I sold weed in school. You're the ratfink, but my ass is grass. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'tortoise shell'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The etui in my purse is antique, And it's tortoise shell, therefore unique. It's for needlework tools, But I do break the rules: Tension wrenches and picks—want a peek? <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'sinful'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When you're drunk as a skunk with a skinful, And the music is raucous and dinful, And a gaze appears doleful Or thoughtful or soulful, Be careful: what's lustful is sinful. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'halloween graveyard'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> In my Halloween Graveyard of Doom, I've constructed a large haunted tomb, And in front, in a pot, Is a big bloody clot That is technically known as a grume. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'vi kate'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> My new girlfriend I'd like you to rate. We'll go skating! A great double date: You and Vi, Kate and I. Though she's shy, kindly try. Your opinion of Kate I await. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'rain'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> A couple, while out one fine day, Took a rest in a field full of hay. One thing led to another And now she's a mother, And he's wishing rain had stopped play. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'opiates cease'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Endorphins, like opiates, cease Your brain's pain response and release Your hurting and grief, Providing relief. They abirritate pain, give you peace. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'hock shock'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> There's a place where the slaughterers flock. It's a street called the butcher block block. Buy a board at a shop, So that next time you chop, Bonded wood will absorb the hock shock. <LIMERICK...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'swallows'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> The word's Delichon—genus of swallows That live on the cliffs (not in hollows), But they also will nest In your eaves, as a guest, And raise babies. (That usually follows.) <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'flying efficiently'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> When you're trying to cruise in a plane, What you watch is the speed you maintain. Most pilots like flying Efficiently, trying To operate jets without strain. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'undoubtedly dwining'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> "For the fjords he's undoubtedly dwining" Was a line in great need of refining. Since that word's obsolete, Michael Palin said, "Neat, But instead let's just say that he's pining." <L...
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'avocado'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Avocado has flesh like green butter; On crackers, it sets me aflutter. Its alligator skin Keeps the pear that's within From rotting and making you splutter. <LIMERICK_END>
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You are a master poet. Your task is to compose a limerick. The topic is 'eyebrows'. Start your limerick now. <LIMERICK_START> Between eyebrows is nary a hair. O'er the nose there the landscape is bare. The glabella is slick (It isn't a trick) Unless you've a unibrow there. <LIMERICK_END>
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