Gangsta Limerick is a dark story written in the rhythmic style of a limerick as contrast to its message. Strong use of assonance gives the poem an easy going feel. I hope you enjoy this poem I had a lot of fun writing it.
A gangsta who lived in the hood,
sold drugs to whomever he could.
Then one night he was shot in a trash littered lot
by a good man who said that he would
get the gangsta out of his neighborhood.
That's when the cops finally came to the block
asking who saw the gangsta get shot
no one knew a thing, being in their beds
behind doors with a bolt and a lock.
What a shame no one knew how the gangster got shot
that night in the trash littered lot
outside the good man's shop.
No one mourned, or sighed, when he died,
not even the mother who bore him cried.
Now the children can play outside
No longer hiding with fear inside.