2013: The Beginning of the year of limericks
I turned 49 in the year 2013. I remember going with my wife and kids to the Cook County forest preserve in Elk Grove where there is actually, wait for it, a grove of elk. We were hanging out watching elk, climbing trees, and having all kind of birthday fun when an idea came to me. For the rest of the year, I would write a limerick each day and post it on Facebook for all to see.
Eventually the task got a little much for me and I did not write 365 limericks that year, but I wrote well over 200. While my limericks never quite went viral, I am sure a few of them made a number of my friends, family and acquaintances sick.
The year of limericks was a bit of a turning point for me in a few ways:
While I have dabbled in poetry along with other kinds of writing and studied poetry while obtaining a degree in English, I never considered myself more than an occasional poet. The limerick experimented jump started this part of my writing.
Facebook has become a curator of my limericks. Thanks to Facebook memories my limericks from 2013-2014 pop up on the anniversary of the day I wrote them. The November 7th 2013 popped up again today. It is about knock knock jokes.
While knock knock who's there jokes are lawful
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