there was a young man who sent e-mails
The incomplete collected limericks of Richard C. Long

Index of titles:

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Affairs of State
Alfred the Great
All These Poems I Have Penned
Are Dolphins Intelligent?
Bates Motel, The
Bible in Five Lines, The
Blow It
Blue Remembered Trains
Book Inside Me, The
Can Free Will Be Just an Illusion?
Canute
Clever Trevor
Confessions of a Teenage Psychiatrist
Day in the Life of Brunel, A
Darwin for Beginners
Dead Poets
Decline and Fall of the Limerick, The
Defiant Ode to a Critical World
Delilah
Demise of the Book, The
Did Shakespeare Use Microsoft Word?
DNA
Elderly Person from Ealing, An
Everything I Know About Science
Everything I Know About the Old Testament
Everything I Know About the Scots
Everything I Know About Wales
Evolution is Really a Loop
From Bad to Much Worse
Genesis, Chapter 3, Verses 11-12
Goliath Was Taller
Guy Fawkes was Destined to Lose
How to Get Ahead in Poetry
Icarus
If Albert Einstein Hadn't Cared
If Poets Don't Give Enough Thought
If Time and Space are Random
Limerick Writer's Creed, The
London Transport Regrets
Loneliness of the Long-Distance E-Mailer, The
Mulder & Scully
Nonsense Verse
Nostradamus
Ode to the Dewey Decimal Library Classification System
Ode to the Hammersmith & City Line
Oedipus
Oh Dear
Old Poets Don't Die
Parting
Picture of Dorian Gray, The
Poem on the Statistical Probability of Death
Poem on the Futility of Rhyming Dictionaries
Poems Byronic
Post-Modern Limerick
Said God
Said Lord Nelson
Scientist Living in Bude, A
Serious Poems Bore Me
There is a Young Man in Mid-Wales
There is No-one More Foolish Than Us
There Once Was a Group Named Oasis
There Was a Young Girl Whose Attire
There Was a Young Man From Milan
There Was a Young Man From Prestatyn
There Was a Young Man on Death Row
There Was a Young Man Who Said Damn
There Was a Young Man Who Sent E-mails
There Was a Young Man Who Took Pills
There Was a Young Teacher
There Was a Young Woman Back Yore
There Was a Young Woman From Stroud
There Was a Young Woman I Met
There Was an Old Bloke in the Bible
There Was an Old Doctor Named Spooner
There Was an Old Man from Hong Kong
There Was an Old Man from St Ives
There Was an Old Man of Tibet
There Was an Old Person From France
There Was an Old Person From Tonga
They Say There's a Thing in Loch Ness
Three Wise Men From Afar
Trains on London Underground, The
Unattributed
Unbearable Lightness of Royalties, The
Unfinished Limerick
Verse for a Birthday Card
Verse Written Upon the Victoria Line
Virtual Romance (A Modern Morality Tale)
Voltaire on the Existence of God
Was Cain Not the Killer of Abel?
When I'm Dead
When Jonah Was Inside the Whale
When Newton Sat Under a Tree
World's First Unsinkable Ship, The

COPYRIGHT STATEMENT: © 2000, 2006. THE LIMERICKS REPRODUCED ON THESE WEB PAGES HAVE ALL BEEN PREVIOUSLY PUBLISHED IN VARIOUS UK POETRY JOURNALS AND PUBLICATIONS. THEY ARE REPRODUCED HERE SOLELY IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE TERMS OF NATIONAL AND INTERNATIONAL COPYRIGHT LAWS. I, RICHARD LONG, ASSERT MY MORAL AND LEGAL RIGHT TO BE IDENTIFIED AS THE AUTHOR OF THESE VERSES IN ACCORDANCE WITH THE UNITED KINGDOM COPYRIGHT, DESIGNS AND PATENTS ACT 1988. THE REPRODUCTION OF THESE VERSES ON THESE WEB PAGES DOES NOT IN ANY WAY INDICATE THAT THESE VERSES ARE NOW IN THE PUBLIC DOMAIN. NONE OF THESE LIMERICKS MAY BE REPRODUCED IN ANY FORM, ELECTRONIC OR OTHERWISE, WITHOUT THE EXPLICIT PERMISSION OF THE AUTHOR, AND WITHOUT THE CLEAR IDENTIFICATION OF THE NAME OF THE AUTHOR.

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