You, my reader, might question the value of the limerick that heralds each chapter in “Lalli unveils a window.” However, each limerick provides an appetizer for what is to come! Here are a couple of examples:

1. There once was a gal who did swear
2. She’d created a limb beyond compare
3. If you pinched it, you’d hear
4. An ‘OUCH’ oh so clear
5. This limb that our Lalli did wear!

1. There once was a boy who thought
2. His parents and siblings were naught.
3. He looked for a spark
4. In places so dark
5. That he cried out: “This isn’t what I sought!”

1. When SWAT teams on television’s screen
2. Do bulldoze their way to the scene
3. We clap and we cheer
4. To what does appear
5. to be fatal for these guys so mean

1. But Lalli and friends bore witness
2. to real life police under duress,
3. How they vanquished so quick
4. With a charge oh so slick!
5. Now the bad guys are stuck in their mess!

Happy reading!

About kamakshi

Kamakshi Pappu Murti is a retired professor of German Studies. She has published children’s books centered on young and older teens. Murti has also published murder mysteries featuring two indomitable female sleuths, avatars of Agatha Christie’s Jane Marple: “Murders Most Matronly” and “Murders in the Ivory Tower.” Her scholarly writing addresses multi-cultural issues, and gender studies (“India: The Seductive and Seduced ‘Other’ of German Orientalism” and “To Veil or not to Veil: Europe’s Shape-shifting ‘Other’.”

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