News limericks: Can you set current events to verse?
When reading the news stories, I’m
Struck by abundance of rhyme.
So here’s your big chance -
Let’s make those words dance!
It’s Friday NEWS LIMERICK time.
Sure, anyone can sum up a news story in a haiku format. But how well can you compress the happenings of the week into a snappy, five-line poem? Ballpark Village rhymes with downtown pillage. Forest Park? How about after dark?
You get the idea. Go ahead and start your opus with the time-honored “There was a young lady from⦔ beginning, if you must. But please — keep it rated PG. There are women and children present.



Kurt is the director of social media for the Post-Dispatch, where he has worked since August 2002. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor.
There once was a city, St Louie
The pride of the state of Missouri
They once held a fair
Now there’s naught but hot air
Sic transit gloria San Louie
The mighty Mississippi flows
The leaders come to blows
No one can cross
Who cares? Says the Boss
And they wonder why everything slows