Poem Archive

The cannibals are cooking –
Missionary roast, of course,
They’ll burn him at the stake
And serve him with t’ martyr sauce

Numskull the gull is abysmally dull
I told him today that I keep-a-bull
In my shop in Beijing selling pottery – Ming –
He believed me – that bird is so peoplible!

Ogden Nash despises skinniness
Criticizes models’ thinniness
But I would tone things down a modicum
If I had Ogden Nash’s bodicum