Gershon Wolf Poet Limerick

Nada To Fear

I knew a black playwright, cried in his beer
Trust me, Langston Hughes had nada to fear
   My friend wrote ‘too white’
   'King's English,' his plight 
I advised him, “Take Ebonics, you hear?”

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Caren Krutsinger April 28, 2022 at 2:29 AM So much fun!

Kenneth Cheney April 27, 2022 at 7:15 AM We must not correct dialect. Just one of the many educational edicts a good educator should choose to ignore. There I said it. Gershon Wolf April 27, 2022 at 7:33 PM Sounds like 'a good educator' is really a 'double-plus ungood' teacher. ~ Big Brother

Jeff Kyser April 27, 2022 at 6:20 AM Why you little reprobate, You cannot appropriate, Why you filled with so much hate? Progic/flawgic, ain't it great?

Tom Cunningham April 27, 2022 at 12:18 AM Lol, that will solve it. Tom Gershon Wolf April 27, 2022 at 7:41 PM As they say, "Ebonics don't be Phonics!" (Who's 'they' anyway?!).

Connie Marcum Wong April 26, 2022 at 9:31 PM Very good Gershon. I could have never come up with this. Blessings xxoo Gershon Wolf April 27, 2022 at 7:57 PM Connie Marcum Wong! I wouldn't want you to come up with a ditty like this. Your poetry is too delightful to bother with bone-headed limericks, methinks. Excelsior! :) gw