Freebsd Limericks

A lad from far-off Transvaal
Was lustful, but tactful withal.
        He'd say, just for luck,
        "Mam'selle, do you fuck?"
But he'd bow till he almost would crawl.

A lad of the brainier kind
Had erogenous zones in his mind.
        He got his sensations,
        By solving equations,
(Of course, in the end, he went blind.)

A lady born under a curse
Used to drive forth each day in a hearse;
        From the back she would wail
        Through a thickness of veil:
"Things do not get better, but worse."
                -- Edward Gorey

A lady both callous and brash
Met a man with a vast black moustache;
        She cried, "Shave it, O do!
        And I'll put it with glue
On my hat as a sort of panache."
                -- Edward Gorey

A lady from Kalamazoo
Once found she had nothing to do,
        So she sat on the stairs
        And she counted her hairs:
4,302.

A lady from Old Little Rock
In fidelity took little stock,
        And deserted her man
        In the streets of Japan
For a boy with a prehensile cock.

A lady removing her scanties,
Heard them crackle electrical chanties.
        Said her beau, "Have no fear,
        For the reason is clear:
You simply have amps in your panties.

A lady stockholder quite hetera
Decided her fortune to bettera:
        On the floor, quite unclad,
        She successively had
Merrill Lynch, Pierce, Fenner, et cetera...

A lady was seized with intent
To revise her existence misspent.
        So she climbed up the dome
        Of St. Peter's in Rome,
Where she stayed through the following Lent.
                -- Edward Gorey

A lady while dining at Crewe
Found an elephant's whang in her stew.
        Said the waiter, "Don't shout,
        And don't wave it about,
Or the others will all want one too."