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A week ago, the Florida GOP scolded Rep. Scott Randolph (D-Orlando) when he used the word “uterus” on the statehouse floor. We at Mother Jones couldn’t figure out what was wrong with the word, and why it wasn’t deemed worthy for public. So Jen Phillips penned a limerick in response, calling on readers to post their own reactions to the Florida GOP’s buffoonery. Here are some of our favorites:

From Active Peacemaker:

A Florida Rep. shouted with rage,

“We can’t use those words near a page.

I’m convinced by my work

We were brought by the Stork!”

Now please put that Rep. back in his cage.

deanz:

There once was a party so grand

It thought it would give God a hand

By helping her tutor us

on words hardly new to us

but soon She’ll be having *them* banned

To Womb it May Concern:

The word uterus is naughty, you see

Not for use in polite company

They’ve deprived half the nation

Of sex education

Now it burns whene’er they GO P.

While demagogues Stately and Clerical,

encourage their gals to get spherical

they won’t lessen its stature

with crass nomenclature

to use Uterus makes them hysterical.

Amy Sharp

So they think that uterus is offensive…

it is time to get down down off the fences

to hold hands and skip

to the beat of something hip

and get the country back to its sense

Valerie Hope Starr

I’d quiver to think what they’d to us

dare we mention that naughty word uterus

we can pillage, rape, maim but not mention that name

of the place whence we came fore you knew of us

Jim Bazen

Some words are a source of dissension.

They require a thorough preemption.

Now the Reps are all riled

’bout the fetus who filed

A uterine homestead exemption.

Brenda Cummings

The Republicans don’t like my uterus.

Revelations like these aren’t new to us.

They don’t care for humanity,

They’ve lost their sanity—

We ALL came from one—unum e pluribus?

Thepink Pantsuit

To reject a word such as uterus

I find nothing short of ludicrous

Does not the blessing of birth

Define a woman’s self-worth

What more can the GOP to do us?