ISAAC ASIMOV'S LIMERICK FOR JACKIE
Google the name of Isaac Asimov and you will find 1,940,000 entries. The man was a genius, a member of Mensa and one of the leading writers of science fiction. He also wrote mysteries and a variety of scientific and scholarly works. All in all he wrote or edited more than 500 books as well as a huge number of short stories. Asimov also was known as a humorist and that may be why he enjoyed writing limericks, the suggestive kind about women. Sometimes they were about the wives of other men. To Isaac it made no difference.
We first met him at a Mystery Writers of America meeting in New York in March, 1980. He took one look at me and decided I didn't merit a limerick but he led Jackie to a dark corner so he could get to know her better. Then, because it was the only writing material available, he used a cocktail napkin to compose the limerick below in her honor. As a finishing touch he managed to spill a little of his drink on it. Good old Isaac, what a guy!
