When reading the news stories, I’m
Struck by abundance of rhyme.
So here’s your big chance -
Let’s make those words dance!
It’s Friday NEWS LIMERICK time.
Sure, anyone can sum up a news story in a haiku format. But how well can you compress the happenings of the week into a snappy, five-line poem? Ballpark Village rhymes with downtown pillage. Forest Park? How about after dark?
You get the idea. Go ahead and start your opus with the time-honored “There was a young lady from⦔ beginning, if you must. But please — keep it rated PG. There are women and children present.
Kurt has been an editor at the Post-Dispatch since August 2002, working on both STLtoday and the newspaper. He's been a journalist since 1982, covering municipal government, courts, education and two hurricanes as a reporter before becoming an editor. 
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