If you’ve enjoyed reading about Isaac Asimov and his dirty limericks, please consider sharing the post or subscribing to the blog. There’s a modest brilliance at the heart of Emily Dickinson’s credo: “Tell all the truth but tell it slant.

Whoever it was who condensed it down to six words did something masterly; the little announcement speaks not merely of the heartbreak of an infant’s death but also of harrowing poverty and human resilience. The question I am most frequently asked is ‘Asimov, how do you manage to make up your deliciously crafted limericks?

THERE ONCE WAS A MAN FROM NANTUCKET - This hilarious dirty book is not for the faint hearted, and filled with wild, crazy and hilarious rhymes that are sure to make you blush! I raised the question with Better World Books and although they could not supply a hardcover version they were extremely generous in making up for the descepency. Grown clear-sighted with time, they now recognize that life’s ultimate rewards are few and fleeting.

Still, poetry is a tricky enterprise, routinely upending generalizations that would contain or confine it. Our funny dirty limericks will make you laugh as funny dirty poems are fitted with funny rhymes and made for a dirty mind. Prose has, the story reminds us, its own gorgeous and powerful concisions, but nothing to compare with the reach belonging to verse. Some of the technologies we use are necessary for critical functions like security and site integrity, account authentication, security and privacy preferences, internal site usage and maintenance data, and to make the site work correctly for browsing and transactions.But rather than alluding to the conjugal act with clever innuendo, these dull and dirty limericks display zero sense of subtlety.