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SELECTED WORKS OF Ogden Nash

SAMPLE POEM 1 One way to be very happy is to be very rich For then you can buy orchids by the quire and bacon by the flitch. And yet at the same time People don’t mind if you only tip them a dime, Because it’s very funny But somehow if you’re rich enough you can get away with spending water like money While if you’re not rich you can spend in one evening your salary for the year And everybody will just stand around and jeer. If you are rich you don’t have to think twice about buying a judge or a horse, Or a lower instead of an upper, or a new suit, or a divorce, And you never have to say When, And you can sleep every morning until nine or ten, All of which Explains why I should like very, very much to be very, very rich. One Third of the Calendar
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One Third of a Calender code format="style14" In January everything freezes. We have two children. Both are she'ses. This is our January rule: One girl in bed, and one in school. code code format="style14" In February the blizzard whirls. We own a pair of little girls. Blessings upon of each the head –– The one in school and the one in bed. code code format="style14" March is the month of cringe and bluster. Each of our children has a sister. They cling together like Hansel and Gretel, With their noses glued to the benzoin kettle. code code format="style14" April is made of impetuous waters And doctors looking down throats of daughters. If we had a son too, and a thoroughbred, We'd have a horse, And a boy, And two girls In bed code