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'There once was a guy from Nantucket' -- no, never mind

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From: Oakland Tribune
Date: 20060512
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RHYME TIME -- A few months ago Richard Bridgman of Newark sent me a limerick he'd composed. It went:

Have you heard of the columnist, Ray,

Who amuses us day after day?

His writings in verse

Are no better or worse

Than Edna St. Vincent Millay.

I consider it wonderful to be honored in a poem that actually scans, but I was reminded of Mr. Bridgman's poetic skills primarily because that is a limerick, and according to Chase's Annual Events, today happens to be National Limerick Day. It's designed to pay homage to the genre that has been described as "the only fixed verse form indigenous to ...

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