Oops! I sent my last post before I could add that I really liked the
limericks you posted, Janet, especially the moat (Shahob and I have a real
taste for the absurd); and I understand entirely why your son would prefer
his version of the man with a beard to the Lear original--I wasn't sure if
you were being ironic when you said you couldn't: Laying eggs in a beard is
much more absurd than building a nest, and the idea of the eggs popping out
of the birds--my son connected and maybe still connects it to
"pooping"--would, to a six-year-old, beat nest-building any time, I think.
Richard
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