Limerick, Poetic Form Exercise Options

[Larry]

Keeping track of the queers? I don’t try!
Didn’t Even Investigate why
they were once known as Gay.
That was back in the day
long before the far-left’s pious cry.

[JustDaniel]

They are crying for left-over pie
as they walk through the streets far and nigh
but the bakers can't hear
any voice that's not near
so the far-away people can't buy

[Larry]

When the far-away folks who can’t buy
things the U.S. A. makes, tell them why.
It’s your tariffs; they stink
and you drove us to drink
but old Uncle Sam’s teats have run dry.

[JustDaniel]

If your Auntie Sam's teats have run dry
find a surrogate cow pastured nigh
so her baby can drink
while she's dressed in cute pink
and there'll not be a cloud in the sky

[Larry]

If there’s never a cloud in the sky
will the rivers to lakes all run dry
or will folks with big brains
bring back showers and rains
with strange chemicals they will apply.

[JustDaniel]

If with comical words you reply
who'll take serious things that you sigh?
So be serious some,
though you needn't be glum
Then the things that you share, who'll decry?

[Larry]

Who’d decry all the things which we share?
Do they offer critique to compare
or mere words I’d describe
as a trite diatribe?
Mentally, they may need an Au pair.

[JustDaniel]

Yes, alas they will find an old pair
who are penning their words in despair
but they can't die a tribe!
None are left who subscribe
to their rain-dancing, poetic flare.

[Larry]

Their poetic flare danced in the rain
but, alas, we are all who remain
of that once vibrant throng
to which we both belong.
Could our words be the final refrain?

[JustDaniel]

With the final refrain of our words
all that hear them are squirrels and birds
In a forest of verse
we go better to worse
so we rip up our writing to sherds

[Larry]

Should we shred all the words that we write
from minds’ gifts which our muses bedight?
Should we be circumspect
and then have to reflect
on what’s left; the mundane and the trite?

[JustDaniel]

If the mundane and trite's all that's left
I'm afraid that my work is bereft
of what the bards need
that they wouldn't be peed
on by all passers-by who are deft

[Larry]

If the deft passers-by need to pee
I would hope it’s not on you and me.
Yes I know, “you and I”
is correct but I’ll try
to convince those deft folks; “find a tree”!

[JustDaniel]

"you and me" was correct in your sentence,
so there's really no need for repentance.
You and I now may dine
on the beach and recline
with no worry of old bugs and spent ants.