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# Variations on a  Theme
- URL: https://www.hawkword.com/poetry/variations-on-a-theme-16106110/
- Published: 2021-09-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Updated: 2021-09-14T12:00:00.000Z
- Description: Who goes there? -- the man from Nantucket I see. And what's that in your pocket? That's surely a gun? -- Of those, I have none, a plug that's in search of a socket
- Author: A. Gee
- Tags: Limerick, Poetry, Allpoetry Import, #Import 2026-04-25 19:56

Who goes there? -- the man from Nantucket  
I see. And what's that in your pocket?  
That's surely a gun? --  
Of those, I have none,  
a plug that's in search of a socket

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**Author notes:** https://allpoetry.com/contest/2787361-2021-Form-Poetry-Rounds---September thought it'd be fun to combine the two comedy tropes (i.e. is that a gun in your pocket and the cliché limerick)