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The Big Apple

I made a trip to New York and surely looked like a dork staring at the sky scrapery so high (and sometimes ogled a nork*) I took a walk to the dock heard so many kinds of talk from seething masses (and some were asses**) all I could do was just gawk I went out to Ellis Island 'cause Woodie*** says it is myland and it is yours too it just wouldn’t do — to exclude folks from the high lands deserts, swamps or wherever. I think we should endeavor (since most of us once, were just immigrants) to welcome them forever or give it to first peoples, tear down our pious steeples. Stop saying we care (if it is hot air) Stop our slaughter of sheeples! I tend to ramble a lot. My trip to the melting pot? Was a WOW I’d say and maybe one day I will return at a trot. Salute to souper Ilene (a fan of, I’ve always been) and to that Billy who is so silly**** They live in that crazy scene! ~~~~ asteriskus explanus: *aussie slang word (google it) **not all were asses — overall I found New Yorkers much less rude than I had expected (based on what I’d been told) ***Guthrie - the folksinger ****According to hisself, souper Sillybilly Thekidster

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Date: 11/26/2016 10:32:00 AM
Not a$$es just feisty and I love it!
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Date: 11/27/2016 9:49:00 AM
Salute to the feisties!
Date: 10/23/2016 8:14:00 AM
We're not rude, merely self-consumed! :) Love this to bits! 7 +fav.
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Date: 10/23/2016 8:37:00 AM
Used to be, I've since moved, couldn't stand all the rude people. haha kidding. :)
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Date: 10/23/2016 8:29:00 AM
Aren't we all! :-) So you're an apple-ite, eh?
Date: 10/22/2016 9:22:00 PM
Love this write about NYC Lim'rik, very creative & clever!:)
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Date: 10/23/2016 7:50:00 AM
Thanks CH. Lots to be written about that batch of boroughs, and mach has been written by folks with keener insight than mine:-) cheeriets ~ j
Date: 10/22/2016 8:52:00 AM
Hi John, You have penned a good string of limericks. I've never been to Big Apple. But I'm happy that I visited your page to see what you wrote about your visit there:-)Alexis
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Date: 10/22/2016 10:17:00 AM
Hi Alexis! So much could be written about NYC, even my paltry short time there was amazing. Got to see the 9-11 memorial which was intensely moving — deserves more than a lim'rik, though, so I won't write about it;-) Loved your footles kiddo. I'll get over to comment on them in a bit. CheeriodiO's ~ j
Date: 10/21/2016 10:07:00 AM
if I ever went to that apple of a town...id wish for anything but frowns...dine with the masses...avoid those asses...and salute lady liberty dressed in her glorious gown
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Date: 10/22/2016 10:09:00 AM
:-) and you're avoidance tactics would be???;-) I came closest to a meltdown on Liberty Island. I nearly started installing "selfie sticks" in the nether regions of folks' anatomy. Hey, I also got a brief look at your town since I had a train layover for a few hours. Watta place! cheerios, limaster
Date: 10/21/2016 8:54:00 AM
Great string of limericks John and I would so so love to meet Ilene her humourous poems are superb - maybe I will get to NY one day:-) hugs Jan xx
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Date: 10/22/2016 10:06:00 AM
Visiting NYC was an eye opener for this small town boy, to say the least. Ilene is an amazing poet. I've often said her poems would make a great column in the newspaper. Congrats on spawning another POTD with the collab!!! huggabunkles ~j

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