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		<title>Salon limerick contest</title>
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		<description><![CDATA[The last batch of silly verse before election day]]></description>
			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Salon's reader-poets take on drones, Hurricane Sandy and the absurdity of the election process.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>"Why is the East Coast under the brine?"</em></p><p><em>Says a preacher: The reason’s divine.</em></p><p><em>"They'd avoid the malaise,</em></p><p><em>If they'd persecute gays,</em></p><p><em>And teach children intelligent design."</em></p><p>Michael Moulton</p><p>Gainesville, Fla.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Lesser evil, it now has been shown,</em></p><p><em> Deals death from the sky by the drone.</em></p><p><em>With this for a lesser,</em></p><p><em>Mitt's greater transgressor,</em></p><p><em>Must be evil beyond that ever known.</em></p><p>Daniel Fleisher</p><p>Baltimore</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Ho Donald, once more you've weighed in;</em></p><p><em>Raised your whine in the midst of the din; </em></p><p><em>"I'm SIGNIFICANT . . . PLEASE!"</em></p><p><em>Twenty-four-carat sleaze . . .</em></p><p><em>And a brain to embellish a pin.</em></p><p>JF Stover</p><p>Hill City, Kan.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>As a middle-class gal from the South,</em></p><p><em>Of course I have a big mouth.</em></p><p><em>I don't have a filter,</em></p><p><em>Or shame for my pilfer.</em></p><p><em>My politics take over the house.</em></p><p>Mary McChesney</p><p>Norfolk, Va.</p><p>&nbsp;</p><p><em>Ohio and Iowa, too,</em></p><p><em>Are red, no wait, maybe they're blue.</em></p><p><a href="http://www.salon.com/2012/11/02/salon_limerick_contest_11/">Continue Reading...</a></p>]]></content:encoded>
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