Five Limericks for a Dose of Laughter’s Medicine

Crusted Gnome

The gnome in the garden

Suddenly began to harden

Because the wind

Had strangely pinned

To it clay from Jordan.

Hedgehog’s quill

Yesterday, a hedgehog’s quill

Poked me and I emitted a shrill

Kind of squeak,

So as I speak

I can only trill.

Brain rot

Sticks and stones

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Will break your bones

But minds will crack

And limbs go slack

From staring at phones.

In my ear

I knew a large earwig,

Hard of hearing,

When he went in my ear

He couldn’t hear

Me giving him my earring.

Dangerous trip

A week ago, I went to Trenton,

And on the airplane I was sent in

The hostess’s crimson sashes

Brushed on me and gave me rashes

So now I’ve pulled a tendon.