Building That Career (Poetry Prompt)
I hope you’ll join me in writing a limerick with this first line:
An unemployed fellow named Nick…
Here’s mine:
Building That Career
By Madeleine Begun Kane
An unemployed fellow named Nick
Had an interview — poured it on thick.
Though a snob, he proclaimed
That he always had aimed
For a job using mortar and brick.
Please feel free to write your own limerick using the same first line and post it in my comments. And if you’re on Facebook, I hope you’ll join my friends in that same activity in my Limerick-Offs.
Tags: Building Limerick, Construction Humor, Interview Humor, Job Hunting Humor, Poetry & Prompts, Snobs, Unemployment Humor, Workplace Poetry, Writing Prompts
An unemployed fellow named Nick
Was adopted by actor Thicke.
Nick Thicke starred in porn
despite being reborn,
is “headlining” as Licorice Stick.
An unemployed fellow named Nick
Badly needed a job and right quick
So he fired off some apps
Tho’ soaked at the taps
And he said “T’is just the trick!”
An unemployed fellow named Nick
When fired was hurt to the quick!
He’d worked at a bank
At a job that just stank
Now he’s flipping the burgers at “Mc”s!
An unemployed fellow named Nick
Tried out for a job as a prick
“So, what’s the big onus?
“I’ll give up the bonus!”
And Goldman Sachs hired him quick
An unemployed fellow named Nick
Said he could perform conjuring tricks
To employers he would confess
I am really quite useless
So who would employ Nick the hick?
An unemployed person named Nick
Had to find new employment real quick.
He applied to the army,
But they found him too smarmy.
The only Armey to take him was named Dick.
An unemployed fellow named Nick
Said “I’ll end it all on the Van Wyck.
I think the Expressway
Is really the best way
To get it all over with, quick!”
These are fun. Thanks everyone! And Dr. Goose, as someone who’s driven on the Van Wyck, I can definitely relate.