Limericks are the Haiku of Western civilization. They seek associative, allusive, connotative, and humorous revelation, rather than the mystical and ineffable, mostly. I will get it started:
There once was a judge named Alito
Who the Left did dislike con spirito,
So they smeared him with slime,
But ran out of time,
So left crying in their beer and Doritos.
Update: Emailed from an Italian-American reader "Vinny in NJ":
There was a paysan named Alito,
To us Dems he's a nasty mosquito.
He's a working class wop
but he ain't union shop,
I'd rather vote for a friggin' burrito.
It's a difficult rhyme. One more, emailed in from who knows where:
There once was a judge named Alito,
They claimed he had gone incognito,
And hates women and blacks
Like all Reagan hacks,
But he stuck like a chunk of granito.
Waste some time. Send us more. Email, or via Comments.
There once was a justice named Sam
Who got a Senatorial rectal exam.
In the face of attacks
From partisan hacks
He closed it up just like a clam.
Sanity back to The Court?
It's been like a venereal wart.
You scratch it and hide it
But you just can't abide it,
They abort and contort and come short.