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Ogden Nash
I would like to turn everyone’s attention to a writer who, unlike many others, continued to swim after making his splash,
Namely, the lighter-than-water Ogden Nash, A verse humorist whose primary compositional principle Is to stubbornly remain the exact opposite of inwincible, And whose general working method is to mix up long and short lines in a way so maddening and so funny that in the end you have to conclude that he’s a genius or a whiz, Which he is. But that’s not the funniest part, the funniest part is when his wife says, Oggie dear, and he says, yes what is it my darlingest pollywoggy, And she says, Oh, nothing, I just wanted to find out what you would say when I called you Oggie. 1997
In the style of
Ogden Nash.
I had completely forgotten this poem and found it while looking
through old files. It comes with an Ogden Nash martini recipe:
Three parts pun, one part the truth.
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