He asked a question based on reality, <br />"If we be dumb, what shall decrease? " <br />Teacher said, "Our capacity to opine." <br />He said, "To the thoughts; mine… <br />We shan't woo and population shall cease.<br /><br />Saheb Mohapatra<br /><br />http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/limerick-8-weird-question/