poopling soup recipes #171

there was a leprechaun that self harmed 
his tormenting demons were well armed 
they beat him day and night 
till he lost his life's fight 
yet his friends all thought his life was charmed 

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poopling soup recipes #150

there once was a giant who was scared 
that the round world could never be squared 
in rage he tore up books  
that protected the crooks   
then fled the world that had him ensnared 


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poopling soup recipes #162

the madgawd's cookedbook Pg 13

there was a madgawd who won a bet 
playing mahjong with his maddawg Set 
he stole Set's beady eyes 
causing Set's bots demise 
but the madgawd's bots wouldn't reset 

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poopling soup recipes #161

the madgawd's cookedbook Pg 12

there was a madgawd who dreamt of wars 
the bots battles had many encores 
they made their claws and  fangs 
to arm their waring gangs 
fighting for the idol they adores

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poopling soup recipes #160

the madgawd's cookedbook Pg 11

there was a madgawd at his wits end 
his bots viruses he couldn't mend 
the bots had religions 
spread by stool pigeons
released by a madgawds virtual friend 

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author's notes- not a Limerick it's a lymberbrick

stool pigeon -A pigeon tied to a stool by a piece of twine, used as a decoy to entice free-flying birds to the ground to be shot or trapped.

poopling soup recipes #159

the madgawd's cookedbook Pg 10

there was a bot in the machine's pipes
with the madgawd he had a few gripes
as he wandered the maze 
he lost count of the days 
that to the bot all looked like autotypes

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poopling soup recipes #147

there was a house invaded by mice
he thought it worse than when he had lice 
so he bet on himself 
against a piping elf
when the house rolled the elfs loaded dice 

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poopling soup recipes #158

the madgawd's cookedbook Pg 9

there was a madgawd who wrecked his stage 
when he let his bots loose for an age
they created their own code 
networking by a node 
causing the madgawd to vent his rage

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poopling soup recipes #176

track 2

there was a raindog sipping his tea
while he studied a skellington key 
soon he'd find the box 
and leave the paradox 
once he escapes his maze of debris 

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author's notes- not a Limerick it's a lymberbrick

raindog meaning -refers to a habit dogs have of getting lost when heavy rains wash away the dog's markers they have left to guide them home.

author's notes- tom waits in his brilliant song"raindogs" used the word as a metaphor for  human beings who are lost, in pain with no sense of direction and who don't have a social or physical place to belong. 
as in all my lymberbrick poems and quite a lot of my other poems my characters are metaphors. I love Tom Waits' use of the raindog metaphor so it pops up in my own poems now and then. 

poopling soup recipes #157

the madgawd's cookedbook Pg 8

there was a bot tinkering with time 
he built a temple on a lost dime
here the gawds hacked the meek
to give the bots their clique
then the gangs went forth to spread their grime 

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