Ogden Nash Poems

In Baltimore there lived a boy.
He wasn't anybody's joy.
Although his name was Jabez Dawes,
His character was full of flaws. In school he never led his classes,
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People live forever in Jacksonville and St. Petersburg and Tampa,
But you don't have to live forever to become a grampa.
The entrance requirements for grampahood are comparatively mild,
You only have to live until your child has a child.
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Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
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For years we've had a little dog,
Last year we acquired a big dog;
He wasn't big when we got him,
He was littler than the dog we had.
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The truth I do not stretch or shove
When I state that the dog is full of love.
I've also found, by actual test,
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This is my dream,
It is my own dream,
I dreamt it.
I dreamt that my hair was kempt.
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In fourteen hundred and ninety-two,
Someone sailed the ocean blue.
Somebody borrowed the fare in Spain
For a business trip on the bounding main,
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