I am an awfully good poet

And I think that the whole world should know it

All the poems you need

Have been written by me

Who said that Shakespeare was a poet

[I wrote the above decades ago

I hope that you did love it so

This new one in brackets

Wasn’t stored in my attic

Oh how I do love limericks so.]

(And I thought I should say by the way

I’m not as proud as all that if I may

It just popped in my mind

As a curious find

I’m surprised I remember it today.)

{By the way if you think I am awful

That my limericks should all be unlawful

It’s okay, I don’t mind

You need not be kind

Your comments to me can be awful.}

<Using the different brackets has been fun

I could not stop using them at one

I just wanted a note

So the first brackets I wrote

Now that I have used them all, I am done.>