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🗓️ 15 August 2024

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Today’s limericks are all about unexpected consequences. Happy reading.

Children’s poet and educator Constance Levy earned degrees at Washington University and currently lives in St. Louis, Missouri. Known for its careful attention to external and internal rhyme, rhythm, alliteration, and assonance, Levy’s work frequently takes encounters with the natural world as its subject. By drawing on her own childhood encounters, Levy re-experiences the world through verse in the fresh and exuberant ways that children perceive natural objects and phenomena, often for the first time. Reviewers have consistently praised Levy’s poems for their accessible yet creative language. Her books include The Story of Red Rubber Ball (2004), Splash!: Poems of Our Watery World (2002), A Crack in the Clouds and Other Poems (1998), A Tree Place and Other Poems (1994), and I’m Going to Pet a Worm Today and Other Poems (1991). School Library Journal’s Kathleen Whalin summed up the appeal of Levy’s verse best in her review of When Whales Exhale and Other Poems: “To read Levy is to see the wonder of the everyday world.”

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0:00.0	Welcome back to The Daily Poem, a podcast from Goldberry Studios.
0:04.3	I'm Sean Johnson, and today is Thursday, August 15th, 2004.
0:09.7	We are still reading Limericks here on The Daily Poem.
0:13.6	And true to form, so far, all of our Limericks today, there are three in number,
0:19.4	have a kind of common theme, which is unintended
0:23.2	consequences. And one could even argue that two of our limericks have a kind of double theme,
0:29.5	because August 15th is also the feast of the dormition of the mother of God. And in two of our
0:35.5	limericks, the unintended consequence is death. I'm not sure if that
0:40.0	coincidence is appropriate to the occasion or inappropriate to the occasion, but in the spirit
0:45.8	of limericks we're pressing on anyway. Here is the first by Constance Levy called How
0:54.1	How awkward when playing with glue. by Constance Levy called How Awkward
0:54.5	When Playing With Glue
0:56.0	How awkward when playing with glue?
0:58.9	How awkward when playing with glue
1:01.2	to suddenly find out that you have stuck
1:04.0	nice and tight your left hand to your right
1:06.6	in a permanent, how do you do?
1:12.7	And the next?
1:14.4	An anonymous poem.
1:17.4	There was a young lady named Ruth, who had a great passion for truth.
1:22.3	She said she would die before she would lie, and she died in the prime of her youth.
1:30.0	And finally, another anonymous poem that has a kind of surprise about who the speaker is and what the setting is.
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