The Limerick

By definition, a limerick is a nonsense poem in a rhythmic pattern. There is an old joke, that a limerick will float around in your head, until you tell it to someone else. Then it becomes their problem. This happened to me the other day. Not with a limerick, but with a song. While driving to work, I heard an old song on the radio. I had not heard it in years. I never even liked it, when it was new. I heard the song and it embedded itself into my subconscious mind.It silently played on my way to work. It played throughout the work day. It played while making dinner. Most annoying of all, it continued playing as I was trying to go to sleep. This went on for days. Yesterday, I realized that the song had left. Finally. I drove to work, listening to my favorite radio station, and as I pulled into my parking spot, it happened. The song began to play on the radio. It is now happily floating in my head again. Maybe it will act like a limerick and leave my head when I pass it on to someone else. "That's the night that the lights went out in Georgia. That's the night when they hung an innocent man. Don't trust your soul to no backstreet Southern lawyer. Cause the judge in the town got blood stains on his hands..........."