There once was a Martian named Zed …

The “Poet-Tree” section of the blog Really Good Quotes has a few limericks submitted by readers and based on the opening line: “There once was a Martian named Zed ...” I’m always interested in an intellectual challenge, so I pillaged the bulk of one of these limericks and penned my own:

There once was a Martian named Zed
Who was surprisingly well read
You could tell by his looks
That he loved Sci-Fi books
Because of the size of his head

I even found an image to go with my limerick. Check out the cover of the June 8 & 15, 2009, issue of The New Yorker magazine, which I've cropped above.