Monday, January 17, 2005

not often is a g followed by a d

by "they" I meant Ogden Nash, an under-celebrated poet who has been criticized as a writer of mere doggerel. Can this be true of a man who writes such lines as

"The pig, if I am not mistaken,
Supplies us sausage, ham, and bacon.
Let others say his heart is big,
I call it stupid of the pig."

and

"Tell me octopus, I begs,
Is those things arms, or is they legs?
I marvel at thee, octopus,
If I were you, I'd call me us." ?

It cannot.

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