Ogden Nash Poems

People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when…
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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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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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Behold the duck.
It does not cluck.
A cluck it lacks.
It quacks.
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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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When people aren't asking questions
They're making suggestions
And when they're not doing one of those
They're either looking over your shoulder or stepping on your toes
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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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