Ogden Nash Poems

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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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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The wasp and all his numerous family
I look upon as a major calamity.
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Parsley
Is gharsley.
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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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Though you know it anyhow
Listen to me, darling, now,
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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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