North Philly, May 4, 2001. Officer Sean Devlin, Narcotics Strike Force, was working the morning shift. Undercover surveillance. The neighborhood? Tough as a three dollar steak. Devlin knew. Five years on the beat, nine months with the Strike Force. He’d made fifteen, twenty drug busts in the neighborhood.If Chief Justice Roberts can pass off a Raymond Chandler novel as a dissenting opinion, then why can't my moot court brief be a limerick? Look:
Devlin spotted him: a lone man on the corner. Another approached. Quick exchange of words. Cash handed over; small objects handed back. Each man then quickly on his own way. Devlin knew the guy wasn’t buying bus tokens. He radioed a description and Officer Stein picked up the buyer. Sure enough: three bags of crack in the guy’s pocket. Head downtown and book him. Just another day at the office.
There once was a man from Belfoom
who sold illegal DVDs from his room.
He let in an informant
Now the Fourth Amendment is dormant
so to jail where he'll meet his doom.
I expect my Pulitzer for Literature any day now.
2 comments:
You can't begin and end a limerick with the same word. And I like how you've equated Shakespeare with Raymond Chandler.
I demand this entire post be taken down.
You absolutely can begin and end a limerick with the same word. Edward Lear, who popularized limericks, did it aaaaaall the time.
See
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Lear
and
http://www.poetry-online.org/limericks.htm
I demand this entire comment be taken down.
ps. In any case, the same words version was the first draft.
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