Years ago when I was working on a limerick generator before my penchant for generative art was soured by AI, I had finally gotten rhyming to "work" for the first time, which meant that the AABBA poem wound up having the same exact word for each of the A's and the same for each of the B's. My program also prioritized the longest words possible to fit the given syllables remaining. Nevertheless, it was intelligible (if a little abstract / metaphorical-sounding) and it's stuck with me since, maybe because it was only 13 words total and only 10 distinct words in all.
UNBEATEN PERCENTILE CASTONGUAY
MCCLARNON MISCHARGING CASTONGUAY
SABOTEURS COMMANDEERED
MISPRONOUNCE COMMANDEERED
ENVELOPS NARVAEZ CASTONGUAY
I once spent an hour riffing about what this limerick could mean with my brother while he was making dinner. My preferred interpretation is as follows:
In some sci-fi spacefaring future, the brilliant yet hot-headed top-of-his-class pilot Narvaez Castonguay is aboard a small spaceship when he is caught and boarded by seemingly human-looking pirates. This being space futurism, everyone's accent has normalized (obviously this isn't how that kind of thing works, but bear with me) to the point where he can tell that the pirates are actually aliens just by the way they say they plan to commandeer the ship. Drawing his signature Mcclarnon Blaster Pistol (which once accidentally got him into trouble in the academy, but that's another story), Castonguay tries to fire his way out. However, he ultimately fails and the last thing the camera lingers on as the aliens toss him from the ship and he's enveloped (by space) is his full name: Narvaez Castonguay
