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Anne-Marie Epp's avatar

No cause for concern, Mr B.

My Lamar is right here with me.

He'd got it in his noggin

Kankakee was Okanagan.

I flew there, paid bail, now he's free.

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Vicki mannweiler's avatar

😀👍

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Anne-Marie Epp's avatar

Oh how I love poetry

When it has rhyme

And reference to geography

At the same time.

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Robert  Basler's avatar

A sweet lass they called Anne-Marie

Took an airplane to old Kankakee

She ventured afar

To find her Lamar

But he went to the wrong airport and who the hell knows where he is now?

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Susan Crowley's avatar

You forgot to mention you bought Basler Fashions (look it up) --and women had to wear one of those blazers on Basler flights (of fancy).

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Sandy Read Reiberg's avatar

So, of COURSE, I do not know whether AI was REALLY smart enough to write one of those most clever and appropriate limericks I've ever seen, or whether it is yet another in Bob Basler's amazing literary Skill Set. I don't even know how on earth you managed to enter just the right words in the Search Engine to find something so close to an actual Basler AIr Lines. AND you've inspired readers to write their OWN limericks (bravo, Patricia Coonan). The search for TRUTH continues, of course - will we ever know anything for sure any more? Loved it, Bob.

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Jonathan Close's avatar

Flying on the BT - 67

“Oshkosh, Wisconsin, give us a gin an’ we’ll fly in hail”

15 horsepower and 15 restless riders

Three “mechanics”, 25 sacks of mail

All along the southbound odyssey

The plane pulls out of Kankakee

Floats along past houses, farms, and fields

Passing planes that have no name

Their fuselage with inspected frames

And the dang things with functioning landing gear

Good morning, America, how are ya?

Said don't you know me? I'm your native son

I'm the plane they call the BT - 67

I'll be gone 500 miles when the day is done

Dealing card games with the old men in the cockpit

Penny a point, ain't no one keeping score

Pass the paper bag that holds the bottle

Feel the wings crumbling 'neath the floor...

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Robert  Basler's avatar

brilliant, Jon, as always. but the BT-67 going 500 miles in a day? that's the work of the devil!

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Patricia Coonan's avatar

Oh from Oshkosh

To Tucumcari.

For a Route 66 safari.

Maybe a princess

Though sand is her sea.

And this is a daydream

Dreamt up by me.

AI, AI, No!

Perhaps a pirate

Yo Ho!

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Nathan's avatar

I lived in Kankakee as a youngster. Never once did I see a princess or a sea. Trust me on that one.

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Robert  Basler's avatar

I'm sorry, Nathan, but Kankakee says they have no record of you having lived there. They tell me a LOT of people CLAIM to have lived there, just for the status...

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Nathan's avatar

Argh..foiled again.

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trixiebettsDornoch's avatar

It really exists!

ps the poem was, to quote the late great George Short -- ace.

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