Clean Wrinkles

I.

Said the chemist: I’ll take some dimethyloxiomidomesoralamide
And I’ll add just a dash of dimethylamidozabensaldehyde;
But if these won’t mix,
I’ll just have to fix
Up a big dose of trisodiumpholoroglucintricarboxycide.

II.

There was a young man of Japan
Whose limericks never would scan.
When someone asked why
He replied with a sigh
“It’s because I always try to get as many words into the last line as I possibly can.”

III.

Another young poet in China
Had a feeling for rhythm much fina.
His limericks tend
To come to an end
Quite suddenly.

IV.

There was a young lady at Crewe
Whose limericks stopped at line two.

Collected from Wim Tigges’s An Anatomy of Literary Nonsense