A Diplomat's Book of Limericks
by Gordon King

• Excerpt
  "...a number here are suggestive
  and two or three may be congestive,
  but all are a norm
  of the limerick form,
  light hearted or otherwise festive."

• Excerpt
  The husband caught Nick with his knuckle,
  threw him out o'er the sweet honeysuckle.
  Nick tried to explain
  as he limped down the lane,
  "I was looking for things to unbuckle."

• Excerpt
  Two poets named Peter and Percy
  held a tournament quite without mercy --
  The fought it in rhyme,
  one curse at a time,
  in a subversive verse controversy.

• Gordon King grew up on a farm in central Illinois. After college and military service in India during WWII, he studied at Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies and went from there into the U.S. Diplomatic Service.

• King first served in Kabul, Afghanistan. Later assignments included Tehran and Isfahan in Iran, Lahore and Peshawar in Pakistan, Bonn in Germany, and London, England. He served two years each at the Peace Corps headquarters and on Cyprus affairs in the State Department. He finished his career as Principal Officer and Consul General at the American Consulate General in Lahore, Pakistan.

• King has published five books of poetry, in England and the United States. His novel, Ameri-Khan, Frontier Duty on the Grand Trunk Road, based on his diplomatic experiences, has just been published by Xlibris.

• ISBN 978-1-889074-49-8
  • ii + 44 pages, 4 inches x 6 inches, paperbound
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