Foul! - Any limerick ending with its opening is an insult to our old and commendable tradition of raucous doggerel b. For shame you quote it in this place
Indeedy. How about;
There was an old man of Jamaica
Who suddenly married a Quaker
But she cried out "Alack!
I have married a black!"
So he whipped out his mamba to break her.
'Seems that I was busy doing something close to nothing
But different than the day before'
'Met a dwarf that was no good, dressed like Little Red Riding Hood'
'Now you're unemployed, all non-void
Walkin' round like you're Pretty Boy Floyd'
There was an old man of Jamaica
Who suddenly married a Quaker
But she cried out "Alack!
I have married a black!"
So he whipped out his mamba to break her.
I must say that’s awfully good, but i’m not convinced a Victorian publisher of children’s literature would have let it through.