The Cuckoo Poem by Ogden Nash

The Cuckoo

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Cuckoos lead Bohemian lives,
They fail as husbands and as wives,
Therefore they cynically disparage
Everybody else's marriage.

Ogden Nash
Friday, January 3, 2003
Topic(s) of this poem: marriage
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Tom Allport 20 December 2016

obviously they don't give a hoot

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M Asim Nehal 20 December 2015

Nice metaphor and good poem.....10

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