There was a young lad from Japan
whose verses they never would scan
When he was asked why
he said, with a sigh
"Darn it all, I just can't help trying to get as many words as I possibly, possibly can in the last line."
April Fools! This limerick was recited by Psycho-Criminologist Carl Palmberg (Theodore Bikel) to Barbara Graham (Susan Hayward) in the based-on-fact I Want to Live! (Robert Wise, 1958). Graham was on death row at the time, so cramming as much as possible into the "last line" took on added meaning.
2 comments:
I love the title!
Thanks. The titles are often the last things I write, as well as the hardest to come up with.
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