Ogden Nash Poems

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41.
Good-By Now Or Pardon My Gauntlet

Bring down the moon for genteel Janet;
She's too refined for this gross planet.
She wears garments and you wear clothes,
You buy stockings, she purchases hose.
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42.
The Catsup Bottle

43.
The Camel

44.
Winter Complaint

Now when I have a cold
I am careful with my cold,
I consult a physician
And I do as I am told.
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45.
Song Of The Open Road

46.
Further Reflections On Parsley

Parsley
Is gharsley.
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47.
Very Like A Whale

One thing that literature would be greatly the better for
Would be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile and
metaphor.
Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,
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48.
One From One Leaves Two

Higgledy piggledy, my black hen,
She lays eggs for gentlemen.
Gentlemen come every day
To count what my black hen doth lay.
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49.
Just Keep Quiet And Nobody Will Notice

There is one thing that ought to be taught in all the colleges,
Which is that people ought to be taught not to go around always making apologies.
I don't mean the kind of apologies people make when they run over you or borrow five dollars or step on your feet,
Because I think that is sort of sweet;
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50.
The Wasp

The wasp and all his numerous family
I look upon as a major calamity.
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