"You too can have your ten seconds of radio fame!"
San Diego's NPR station, KPBS, has requested that people send in limericks on the subject of public radio. Never one to resist writing limericks or a "do our work for us before our fall membership drive" campaign, I submitted mine today.
We radio listeners assiduous
Shall be evergreen, never deciduous,
Since our mem'ries don't fade
Of the shows that are played,
And our needling's rather mellifluous.
I submit humble rhyming orthography
To extol NPR's wide demography
From Richard and Martha,
To life of Siddhartha;
Our history's vast bibliography.
With our stories from Persians to pandas
That omit slants, spins, and propagandas.
We eschew such polemic-
We're so academic
If we zing you, you won't understand us.
If you feel like submitting your own NPR limerick by the end of the day, send them to words@kpbs.org
We radio listeners assiduous
Shall be evergreen, never deciduous,
Since our mem'ries don't fade
Of the shows that are played,
And our needling's rather mellifluous.
I submit humble rhyming orthography
To extol NPR's wide demography
From Richard and Martha,
To life of Siddhartha;
Our history's vast bibliography.
With our stories from Persians to pandas
That omit slants, spins, and propagandas.
We eschew such polemic-
We're so academic
If we zing you, you won't understand us.
If you feel like submitting your own NPR limerick by the end of the day, send them to words@kpbs.org