It Melted
Here lies Gino Spumoni Supreme,
whose wifey thought he’d eaten all the ice cream.
When she peered into the freezer twice,
finding it puddled behind the Italian ice,
she went off the beam with an ice cream scream.
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Hehe, I like the bluntness of the title especially. A lovely twisted limerick 🙂
Funny story behind this, Stuart. In my ENC1102 class, the professor started a debate whether
Ice cream.
It melted.
was a poem, hence where I got the idea for the title. 🙂 And I love limericks, having some claim to Ireland, and turning it into an epitaph was the icing on the cake (or the cherry on the sundae…hehe).
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