Ogden Nash Poems

People who have what they want are very fond of telling people who haven't what they want that they really don't want it,
And I wish I could afford to gather all such people into a gloomy castle on the Danube and hire half a dozen capable Draculas to haunt it.
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My friends all know that I am shy,
But the chipmunk is twice and shy and I.
He moves with flickering indecision
Like stripes across the television.
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Candy
Is Dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.
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Let's straighten this out, my little man,
And reach an agreement if we can.
I entered your door as an honored guest.
My shoes are shined and my trousers are pressed,
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Foreigners are people somewhere else,
Natives are people at home;
If the place you’re at
Is your habitat,
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The cow is of the bovine ilk;
One end is moo, the other, milk.
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