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    Please Take Care When You Utter A Curse
    Please Take Care When You Utter A Curse
    Please Take Care When You Utter A Curse
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    Please Take Care When You Utter A Curse

    By Doug Baird

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    This unreasonably clean and sometimes edgy book of limericks takes a not quite nonsense view of the people, situations, institutions and attitudes which populate our world.

    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherDoug Baird
    Release dateAug 15, 2013
    ISBN9780989860802
    Please Take Care When You Utter A Curse
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    Doug Baird

    Doug was born in Brooklyn, NY, received BFA from RISD, and is currently living in Lansing, NY while working on creative projects full-time. In 2010 he was awarded Fiscal Sponsorship from the New York Foundation for the Arts for the Idea Enhancement Project, which explores the use of visual imagery to promote creative thought.

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      Please Take Care When You Utter A Curse - Doug Baird

      Please Take Care When You Utter A Curse

      100 Limericks by Doug Baird

      Copyright 2013 Doug Baird

      An intrepid explorer named Owen

      Unearthed ruins that he thought were Minoan.

      And while camped at his base,

      In that faraway place,

      He discovered antique protozoan.

      A big underworld god [name of Hades]

      Had a difficult time with the ladies.

      So he set out to fix

      The old stigma of Styx,

      And he bought a new S-Class Mercedes.

      Poor MacManus McDingus McFee

      Got some bites late at night from a flea.

      And awoke with surprise

      To find marks on his thighs,

      And some bumps on his rump and his knee.

      A mottled old dog we called Spot

      Was the scourge of a large vacant lot,

      Where he chased girls and boys

      Who threw rocks and made noise,

      And he also chased those who did not.

      An astronaut woke with a fright

      When his ship sprung a leak in the night.

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