Editing September Eleventh Limericks

From WikiDotMako

Warning: You are not logged in. Your IP address will be publicly visible if you make any edits. If you log in or create an account, your edits will be attributed to your username, along with other benefits.

The edit can be undone. Please check the comparison below to verify that this is what you want to do, and then publish the changes below to finish undoing the edit.

Latest revision Your text
Line 1: Line 1:
## page was renamed from SeptemberElevenLimericks
== About This Page ==
== About This Page ==
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry Limericks] have a reputation as a silly and humorous form but there's no reason that this should be the case. This collection is an effort to take back the form for serious subjects and prove that limericks can be used for a serious subject.
[http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Limerick_(poetry Limericks] have a reputation as a silly and humorous form but there's no reason that this should be the case. This collection is an effort to take back the form for serious subjects and prove that limericks can be used for a serious subject.


This page collects '''serious limericks''' about a serious subject: the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the effects and fallout from the attacks that we're still feeling today.
This page collects '''serious limericks''' about a serious subject: the September 11th attacks on the World Trade Center and the effects and fallout from the attacks that we're still feeling today.


Please go ahead and write and add a serious limerick about September 11th to this page. If you think of a non-serious limerick that you feel the need to share, find one on that page that you don't feel is serious, or find one one this page that does not adhere to the limerick form, please edit it to solve the issues or remove it from this page and move it to [[September Eleventh Limericks/Rejects]].
Please go ahead and write and add a serious limerick about September 11th to this page. If you think of a non-serious limerick that you feel the need to share, find one on that page that you don't feel is serious, or find one one this page that does not adhere to the limerick form, please edit it to solve the issues or remove it from this page and move it to SeptemberEleventhLimericksRejects.


These limericks are contributed, mostly anonymously. The hosts of the wiki cannot take credit for the content on this page.
These limericks are contributed, mostly anonymously. The hosts of the wiki cannot take credit for the content on this page.


== Serious Limericks ==
== Serious Limericks ==
{{{
Osama hated the US's excesses
So he created a cruel plan to stress us
And Bush, like a jerk,
Made the plan work
Failures just are not successes
}}}


:Osama hated the US's excesses
{{{
:So he created a cruel plan to stress us
In lands far away, wars are fought in,
:And Bush, like a jerk,
A cycle foul, vicious and rotten.
:Made the plan work
We'll continue to pay
:Failures just are not successes
For acts wrought on that day,
 
While our heroes remain unforgotten.
:In lands far away, wars are fought in,
}}}
:A cycle foul, vicious and rotten.
{{{
:We'll continue to pay
Scared that they'll "get" you or me,
:For acts wrought on that day,
We've built safety by nat'nal decree,
:While our heroes remain unforgotten.
The cost of protection?
 
A freedom "correction."
:Scared that they'll "get" you or me,
We've given up our rights for free.
:We've built safety by nat'nal decree,
}}}
:The cost of protection?
{{{
:A freedom "correction."
Falling through space makes me giddy ---
:We've given up our rights for free.
Its so devastatingly pretty.
 
But fallen towers,
:Falling through space makes me giddy ---
Wars with foreign powers,
:Its so devastatingly pretty.
Execrable. So fucking shitty.
:But fallen towers,
}}}
:Wars with foreign powers,
{{{
:Execrable. So fucking shitty.
Iraq and Afghanistan lawless,
 
The bodies lie broken and faceless,
:Iraq and Afghanistan lawless,
'Cause deep in the shadows
:The bodies lie broken and faceless,
Behind tinted windows
:'Cause deep in the shadows
Are they to whom war means big business.
:Behind tinted windows
}}}
:Are they to whom war means big business.
{{{
 
In the forest a tree topples down,
:In the forest a tree topples down,
and another, and all hear the sound.
:and another, and all hear the sound.
The dwellers will grieve,
:The dwellers will grieve,
they will sow and conceive
:they will sow and conceive
or rage on to burn the rest down.
:or rage on to burn the rest down.
}}}
 
{{{
:two planes at two towers did soar
two planes at two towers did soar
:and kindled on terror a war
and kindled on terror a war
:though empty the sky
though empty the sky
:where the towers did lie
where the towers did lie
:their shadow's more long than before
their shadow's more long than before
 
}}}
:nine eleven visiting the ward
{{{
:schizophrenics and bipolars look bored
nine eleven visiting the ward
:the big tv can blare
schizophrenics and bipolars look bored
:there's no one left to care
the big tv can blare
:for our lives have come unmoored
there's no one left to care
 
for our lives have come unmoored
:Before nine-eleven two thousand one
}}}
:there were two towers, now they're none.
:a war was conjured,
:from which we inferred:
:Ideas can't be stopped with a gun!
 
:on the ninth month day number eleven
:two buildings fell further from heaven
:the cameras were rollin
:yet the truth was stolen:
:what happened to building number seven?


:There once was a town they called Boston
{{{
:near the towers thousands were lost in.
Before nine-eleven two thousand one
:Though Boston publicly weeps
there were two towers, now they're none.
:for loss of life on the cheap,
a war was conjured,
:they secretly wish the planes had got them.
from which we inferred:
Ideas can't be stopped with a gun!
}}}


:September brought two towers down
{{{
:and polished conservative crowns
on the ninth month day number eleven
:We're swimming in lies
two buildings fell further from heaven
:and swindled by spies
the cameras were rollin
:while Orleans continues to drown
yet the truth was stolen:
what happened to building number seven?
}}}


[[Category:Fun]]
{{{
There once was a town they called Boston
near the towers thousands were lost in.
Though Boston publicly weeps
for loss of life on the cheap,
they secretly wish the planes had got them.
}}}
{{{
September brought two towers down
and polished conservative crowns
We're swimming in lies
and swindled by spies
while Orleans continues to drown
}}}
Please note that all contributions to WikiDotMako are considered to be released under the Attribution-Share Alike 3.0 Unported (see WikiDotMako:Copyrights for details). If you do not want your writing to be edited mercilessly and redistributed at will, then do not submit it here.
You are also promising us that you wrote this yourself, or copied it from a public domain or similar free resource. Do not submit copyrighted work without permission!

To protect the wiki against automated edit spam, we kindly ask you to solve the following CAPTCHA:

Cancel Editing help (opens in new window)