Rico Leffanta Poet Limerick

Reincarnation

I can't hear the surf for seal barks
I suspect they are calling all sharks
To end all their woes
By eating their foes
We've not heard the last from Karl Marx!

(THOUGHT FOR THE DAY: 
 With the declining birthrate and 
4-million pandemic deaths, the  odds are 
one might reincarnate as a cicada with 
17-years before your next meal!

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Valsa George December 10, 2021 at 8:09 PM I would prefer to get reincarnated as a pet dog in a rich man's house, but never as a cicada.... :) :) Rico Leffanta December 11, 2021 at 10:08 AM Be careful what you wish for! Dogs of wealth owners get kidnapped, fed unhealthy food, and their naptime is spent showing off their owner's wealth . . . . .

Michelle Faulkner July 12, 2021 at 1:24 PM I think I'd like to come back as an otter - they're too cute to eat! Rico Leffanta July 13, 2021 at 11:12 AM I have written numerous limericks about Jesus walking on water and stepping on an otter, so be careful what you wish for!

Lindsay Laurie July 8, 2021 at 5:25 PM Hello Rico … a good chance to annoy all hell out of humans. I like it - thanks Rico - Lindsay Rico Leffanta July 9, 2021 at 11:10 AM Mahalo, Lindsay! Take care!

Ilene Bauer July 8, 2021 at 11:28 AM ha! never thought about being reincarnated as a cicada, rico! only you would think of that! (although i just read an article about someone who makes earrings out of cicada wings - her neigbors drop off boxes of dead cicadas!) Rico Leffanta July 8, 2021 at 12:02 PM I saw a woman on TV who earns her living dipping cicadas in chocolate, but can not imagine any husband daring to give one to his wife . . ..

Jan Allison July 8, 2021 at 11:19 AM thanks for the warning I better ensure i enjoy 3 meals a day then lol:-) hugs Jan xx Rico Leffanta July 8, 2021 at 12:00 PM The BEST reason for staying healthy and getting inoculated during a pandemic, but it wouldn't hurt to keep eating those strawberries with cream . . . ..