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John Kaufman March 19, 2020 Poetry, Satires

Limerick: To Pray in the Pub

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There was an old man named O’Pious

Sore afraid to perish of virus:

“I dash off to pray

In the pub every day

Cause the church be too crowded with Irish.”

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