The Natural Narrative

So today on my day off my boyfriend and I embarked on a ridiculous project of cleaning out our closet (which unfortunately had just become one humongous pile of stuff). We found a bag of old notebooks and letters that belonged to my grandmother. Just so you all know because nobody else really ever did, my grandmother was a fantastic writer. She had this amazingly descriptive style and her wacky sense of humor shone through in almost everything.  I'm not going to transcribe anything from her notebooks here, but I did find two limericks that she had written that made me laugh out loud, and I figured that if she's somewhere in the great beyond right now, it might make her laugh to see them again.


"There was a lady of Wilts
Who walked up to Scotland on stilts.
When they said it is shocking
To show so much stocking
She answered, "Then what about kilts?"


"There was a young guy from Amazon
Who put nighties of his grandma's on
The reason was that
He was too fat
To get his own pajamas on."

- SW, 1992