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A young boy with the mumps, as indicated by his jaw being wrapped in a scarf, sits in his robe on the bed, looking longingly out his bedroom window at other boys passing by dressed for a baseball game.

The Saturday Evening Post will award $25 to the author of the winning limerick about this Stan Ekman cover illustration from the May 20, 1944, issue of The Saturday Evening Post.

To enter, fill out the entry form below. Entries must be submitted by June 25. Limericks must contain five lines, and you may enter as many times as you wish.

The winning limerick will be published in the SeptemberOctober issue, and our favorite runners-up will be published online.

Read our previous winners’ limericks here.

Need some help crafting a better limerick, read “Writing Limericks: A How-To and a History.”