The art of the limerick …

… Amit Majmudar on Anthony Madrid - Berfrois. (Hat tip, Dave Lull.)

… I believe the echt limerick, the Platonic Ideal of the limerick, is the boneheaded kind. That is why Edward Lear is the language’s best limerick-writer; his practice went straight to the nature of this form. The boneheaded limerick, in Lear’s hands or Madrid’s, is Pure Product.