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While most of us can recall trying our hand at poetry while we were in school, precious few ever become sufficiently adept at this concise and demanding art form to capture our own personal observations about life, much less to describe the lunacies of the political left.

One individual with enough talent to do so is F.R. Duplantier, director of the nonprofit organization America's Future. Dubbed the "Poet Laureate of the Conservative Movement," Duplantier's "Politickles" have been circulating on the Internet for several years, devoured by the politically savvy and even memorized by schoolchildren. Now, they are captured in a single entertaining volume of the same name.

After years of writing limericks "just for fun," Duplantier began using the art form in 1991 to satirize "the preposterous programs and policies to which public school students across America were being subjected." His prolific pen soon covered a wide range of topics, as Politickles will attest - crime, drugs, the media elite, social vagaries, and of course, leftwing political leaders. Here is a sampling: