Nuclear Family Values

In this, the atomical age
to live for the moment’s the rage
Why plan far ahead
when we'll wind up dead?
We’re stuck in a teenager stage

R.I.P. Slip

I'm sorry, my finger--it slipped
I squeezed and the bullet just ripped
You don't need to ask it,
I'll visit your casket
whenever I drive by your crypt

Ann Savage and Hugh Beaumont star in this
PRC quickie double of Double Indemnity. For a
clip and review on Noir of the Week, click here
Sorry, but this kills off Film Noir Week.

The Real Decoy

A murderous dame wants some bread
so brings a guy back from the dead
Her morals are hazy:
she drives the guys crazy
then runs them down under her tread


The poverty row quickie Decoy (44) stars Jean Gillie as a
noir femme fatale for the ages. She has her ex-boyfriend and
bank robber brought back from the dead--and runs another
sucker over in her car. Watch for Sheldon Leonard as a cop.

Black and Blue Gardenia

She walks the night streets all alone
Feels guilty, thinks she must atone
A playboy is dead
and she's filled with dread
the fate that awaits her unknown


Fritz Lang's Blue Gardenia ('53) stars Ann Baxter, Richard Conte, Raymond Burr and Nat Cole, who sings the title song.

The Killers is Coming

The killers are coming to kill

Alone in the dark I lie still
I've loved and I've lost

and been double-crossed

I'd run but I don't have the will.

Burt Lancaster got his first starring role opposite

Ava Gardner in Robert Siodmak's The Killers (1946)

Gun and Done

A guy and a gal and a gun

Two's company, three is more fun

They filled up the tank

and killed, robbing bank

and since then they've been on the run

Past, Tense

A guy can fall hard and fall fast

although the guy knows it won't last

You live and you die

your gallows build high
'cause no one escapes from the past

Director Jacques Tourneur's Out Of The Past (1947) is a Noir poem of romantic doom.

Dead Ending

Coincidence, minor or great,
Just might be the finger of fate
If ever you hitch
It could be a bitch
So next time, try catching a freight.

For an essay on director Edgar G. Ulmer's poverty row noir masterpiece, Detour, click here. And for a link to a Limerwrecks limerick obit for Detour actress Ann Savage, click here.

Heat Waving

A bomb that was meant for a cop
Starts a thirst for revenge that won’t stop
The big heat will burn
And the tables will turn
Strong coffee that’s good to last drop


Glenn Ford and Gloria Grahame in The Big Heat (Fritz Lang, 1953).

It's Hammer's Time

A broad stops a car in the road
A clue to a black box that glowed
With crazed “Va-va-VOOM!”
it's violent doom
A world that is set to explode

Detective bereft of a code
about to be Los Alamo'd
He's sleazy and mean
and sneers at the screen
It's Noir in a nihilist mode

Robert Aldrich's Kiss Me Deadly stars Ralph Meeker as sleazy bedroom dick Mike Hammer. It's one of the nastiest and greatest of all films noir. Welcome to Film Noir Week at Limerwrecks.

Sound Offering

For the silly, obscure and profound-of-it
and a giant-sized man-thingy mound-of-it
From cool to the odd
all news fit to pod
Around Comics will bring you the sound-of-it

There’s Chris, who likes boozing and sports
and Sal, with the (snooze) news reports
A comic book podcast
with comically odd cast
Like Tom, in his Daisy Duke shorts

If you're into comic books, give a listen

to the Around Comics podcast, here

Play, Mate

This gal has the looks of a swinger

and hot-to-trot playlot humdinger

A swing-set sex-bomb
But home to meet mom?

Admittedly, I'll never bring her

Welcome Matts

A marshal plugged outlaws with slugs
A cowboy stole pharmacy drugs
Two Dillons named Matt
as simple as that
Not big, handsome Siamese lugs

Ball's Bearing

An athlete who cheated and schtupped
as ‘Player’ met ending abrupt
When wife caught him cheating
he got such a beating
he wished his equipment was cupped

Say Cheese (cake)

Diverted by thoughts that were lewd

I got her words all misconstrued

I thought she meant me

when she said that she

would like to take pics of me, nude

Cavity Gravity

I made my directions quite plain
I won't tolerate any pain

If this DDS

slips up, I confess

I'll drill some lead into his brain

(cartoon by Chon Day)

Pleasant Under Glass

The Pulps would imprison a lassie
in cells that were see-through and glassy
And through them reveal
transparent appeal
of scantily clad cutie’s chassis

Grim, Brutha, Grim

A little red hen fricassee

A princess asleep in her pee

How far falls the sky?

It's seven flies shy

Things don't always end happily

Viral Stair Case

Steer clear of suspense movie snares
and never look under the stairs!
In basements hide lots
of idiot plots
Poor scripts which give logic the scares

We've written ourselves into a dark corner
so this is the flimsy fade out for Film Week

Fear Window

A fellow was taken aback--

he'd found himself under attack

He'd spied on the lives

of husbands and wives

till one of his neighbors looked back

Raymond Burr returns the gaze of Jimmy Stewart in Alfred Hitchcock's masterpiece, Rear Window.

Uno Ano Oh-No

We sit and type rhyme after rhyme
and hardly keep track of the time
We must be insane
our writing's inane
and nobody pays us a dime

Surly and Norm

Limerwrecks is one year old.
Will somebody please stop us?!?

Melo-Drama School

In Texas the Hadley's are known

for all of the acres they own

The children, well oiled

are terribly spoiled

and destined to end up alone

Douglas Sirk's masterpiece of Freudian

melodrama, Written On The Wind.