A Cannibal Chief and His Wife

Decades ago, I taught an experimental campus-wide Seminar entitled “Creativity and Problem Solving”.  One of the early assignments was to write a limerick using the first line “A cannibal chief and his wife . . .”  This was my favorite submission.  To this day, it still strikes me as exceedingly clever.

A cannibal chief and his wife

Sat down with their fork and their knife

They’d devour every poet

And now, don’t you know it

If I rhyme this last line, I’m dead meat.