Poor Excuse For A Limerick 
Once again, it’s Limerick-Off time. I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
A woman who grew up quite poor…
Here’s mine:
Poor Excuse For A Limerick (Poor Excuse Limerick Audio)
By Madeleine Begun Kane
A woman who grew up quite poor
Is rich now, but always craves more.
Is it greed or just fear?
It isn’t quite clear
Why she hankers to buy out each store.
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Tags: Greed, Money Poems, Poetry & Prompts, Shopping Humor, Wealth, Writing Prompts
A woman who grew up quite poor,
could see Russia from her cabin door.
And the rubbish she spews,
fits in well at FOX news.
Now she’s raking in money galore
A woman who grew up quite poor
Acquired a backwoods hauteur
When her country-fried scrapple
Enthralled the Big Apple
And made her a restaurateur.
A woman who grew up quite poor
Didn’t know what a paycheck was for
She filled up her purse
With some earthworms, and worse
And shop-lifted stuff from the store
A woman who grew up quite poor
Began her career as a whore
She met her Governor
Became his lover
And now is off on her book tour
A woman who grew up quite poor
did never believe in grandeur
she tried not to compare
til she spied her first pair
And became a grand voyeur du jour
A woman who grew up quite poor
raised many hogs on the moor.
She had a thing for salami
and made out with men, like a tsunami.
Yet, all these she gladly eschewed on Yom Kippur!
A woman who grew up quite poor
Found those who were wealthy a bore
Their tables she waited
Their smugness, it grated
And cleaning their mess was a chore