sockupy wall street

These three words were added to my facebook post yesterday.  The writer is not a knitter and is in fact the friend of Youngest Daughter.  I proclaimed him a genius.  What brought on the response?  A call for limericks.

"Sockupied, Interweave’s ground-breaking eMag about sock knitting, wants to hear from you! We are looking for a reader-penned limerick about sock knitting to include in our upcoming issue. A poem of the editor’s choosing will be selected and included in the issue, where the poem’s author will be featured as well.

(Need an extra incentive? We’ll reach into our bag of goodies and send some special sock or other knitting treats as compensation to the author of the limerick we publish.)

Please email poems to the editor at Sockupied. Poems must be received by November 21, 2012.

Need a refresher on the rules of limericks? This page has the basics. (Please note that our readers vary in age, so please keep them PG!)

By submitting the poem, you promise that it is your original work and that you have the right to license it for publication. The editor’s decision shall be final. Drop us a line for more information."

I will be burning the midnight oil trying to come up with a doozy.  I wish the PG restriction were not in there, so many inappropriate words rhyme well.

Comments

[kate]

That's pretty clever, that title. Gives a whole different image to the protests...

I've got my limerick thinking hat on.

[Anne Merrow]

I'm late in finding this, but I have to say it did seem like a heavy restriction to eliminate the most common word in the typical limerick lexicon that rhymes with sock. I decided it was a little like Oulipo--the French "constrained writing" movement that produced things like a novel in which the letter "e" does not appear.