The government cut flood defence/
To minimise public expense/
There then came a flood/
So somebody’s blood/
Is needed to make recompense.///
About twitmericks
There is an old fellow called Mick/Who's been penning the odd limerick/I admit he's no Keats/But he does them in tweets/So to follow, you just have to click. https://twitter.com/#!/twitmericks
"The limerick master of the twitterati" (The Guardian).