Limericks From The Smith
Number One:
The Sad Ballad Of
Sir Scott, The Trivial
By: Field de la Smith

The baby who grew up as Scotty 
Had his head dunked into his potty. 
The effect on his mind 
Proved rudely unkind; 
Thereafter he thought he was Dotty!

As a boy, Scott grew catty and shrill, 
Spiteful, envious; girlishly frill. 
He peeped for the fun 
On the neighbor's sweet son 
And he scratched though his undies for thrill.

Maturing, his passion was peeping 
When he wasn't occupied creeping. 
Like a lass on a tear, 
He craved guys' underwear 
And snatching their trinkets for keeping.

A great searcher, grown Scotty became, 
Creep, peeping, he stole just the same; 
Being sissy inside, 
He's unable to hide 
Addiction to his pettiness game.

Soon a guard he finagled to be. 
Soiled boxers he lusted to see. 
He could seize all my stuff 
While he treated me rough 
And he wrecked me most vengefully.

He aged ever petty and mean, 
Stealing trash and causing a scene. 
He seized paper clips 
As if enemy ships 
With his feminine envy bright green.

Balding with age and festering hate, 
Is baiting inmates really so great? 
He could take their small job, 
Their treasures destroy; 
But honor he failed to relate.

Now he's old and gone into the earth, 
A ridiculous object of mirth. 
Will my stuff that he stole 
Warm him down in that hole? 
Will my treasures light up his dank berth?

For all guards, the moral proves true, 
Treat prisoners as they should treat you
Don't torture for stress. 
Don't search to cause mess 
One day you may be an inmate, too. 

Number Two: 
The Ballad Of Captain Fear 
And The Three Scary Things 

He's scared as scared he can be. 
"Pretty please don't try firing me! 
"I'm afraid and I quake, 
"A mistake I might make. 
"For the worst of my fears there are three." 

Captain Fear is an old prison guard. 
No part of his duties are hard. 
He's paid just to lean,
With a bonus for mean; 
It is done by most any retard.

Fear's a trembler as you should know, 
To extremes his compulsions must go. 
He harasses the guys 
While professing black lies 
And he slithers ever more low.

For his manias, Captain has cause. 
Both his parents had serious flaws' 
A gambling mother, 
A runaway father; 
They even had faked Santa Claus!

He was lost my his mommy at two 
Because State beat out her pick, Purdue. 
Against just three pack, 
She gave her kid the sack. 
But the winner swapped for a brew.

Daddy skipped out whenever he could. 
Escaping his family seemed good. 
He'd pry open the door, 
Or dig down through the floor; 
Fleeing as a caged animal would.

The effect on the youth was profound! 
As a guard his terrors unbound. 
Fanatic to stamp out 
Every gambling bout 
And escapes he would run to the ground.

Neurotic, the young Fear went mad. 
To wager like his mother was bad! 
And just thoughts of release 
Brought a cry for police. 
Insanity in guards is so sad!

His third terror was knowledge, per se. 
It worried him by night and by day. 
Find a con with a brain, 
(Worst fear, restrain!) 
So search him in a malicious way.

But take heart, you friends of the cops, 
Some of them really aren't flops. 
Captain Fear is a nut, 
But, really, so what? 
With all guards, insanity's tops.

Number Three: 
The Verse 
To Spyglass Brown 

The twit gluing the lens to his eye, 
Is ecstatic at being a spy. 
On the men he will peek, 
Petty errors to seek. 
To hide his own faults, is the why.

How silly some grown men try to be, 
Cops and guards, especially. 
Let one taste some power, 
He'll spy by the hour. 
A joke, Spyglass Brown seems to me.

Peepholes, keyholes and such, 
Always arouse him ever so much! 
To hide his own faults, 
Mere inmates he faults; 
Snitch a prisoner doing some wrong. 

Don't snicker or titter at Brown. 
He's neurotic. He always must frown. 
That he's silly and dumb 
Has been making him glum. 
Can he help that he's such a clown?

Number Four: 
My tribute To Fido, 
Girl-Guard 

[To follow soon, stay tuned!] 


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