Thick As Thieves Limerick

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

Happy Thick As Thieves day!

aged_crone requested poems in celebration, but kindly allowed limericks instead. So, while hanging out in Chatzy during the countdown to midnight, 1221bookworm and I came up with the following:


freenarnian: There once was a slave named Kamet/whose fate was an unlikely bet...
freenarnian: (terrible, I know.)
Bookworm: When he met with a thief/who gave him nothing but grief ...
Bookworm: (Assuming Costis is serving Gen's God now ...)
freenarnian: Ha!
...
freenarnian: ...But now as a player, he's set!
freenarnian: There.
...
Bookworm: Wonderful. We should send it to MWT as the blurb for the back on the next reprints.
freenarnian: Agreed.
freenarnian: It sets it up rather well, don't you think, without even being too spoilery.
Bookworm: It would fit very well with the not telling policy.


:D

Feel free to contribute limericks of your own devising! 

Comments

[filkferengi]

Niggly nitpick on an otherwise excellent & fun limerick:

There's one syllable too many in the original version of:

When he met with a thief/who gave him nothing but grief

Drop the who, & you're good to go, like so [so so ;)]:

When he met with a thief,
Gave him nothing but grief

Thus adding the pleasing ambiguity of not be sure exactly is giving whom grief, so both options are wide open.

[freenarnian.livejournal.com]

You're right, and I approve of your alternative and how it adds a layer of nuance to an otherwise very straightforwardly silly rhyme! :D

[filkferengi]

English is full of fun ambiguities like that.