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Michelle wrote:
> On Monday, January 4, 2016 at 3:32:37 PM UTC-6, wrote: >> Enjoy! >> >> (If you don't know his poems, he was always funny.) >> >> http://www.poemhunter.com/poem/the-clean-plater/ >> >> "Some singers sing of ladies' eyes, >> And some of ladies lips, >> Refined ones praise their ladylike ways, >> And course ones hymn their hips. >> The Oxford Book of English Verse >> Is lush with lyrics tender; >> A poet, I guess, is more or less >> Preoccupied with gender. >> Yet I, though custom call me crude, >> Prefer to sing in praise of food. >> Food, >> Yes, food, >> Just any old kind of food. >> Pheasant is pleasant, of course, >> And terrapin, too, is tasty, >> Lobster I freely endorse, >> In pate or patty or pasty. >> But there's nothing the matter with butter, >> And nothing the matter with jam, >> And the warmest greetings I utter >> To the ham and the yam and the clam. >> For they're food, >> All food, >> And I think very fondly of food. >> Through I'm broody at times >> When bothered by rhymes, >> I brood >> On food. >> Some painters paint the sapphire sea, >> And some the gathering storm. >> Others portray young lambs at play, >> But most, the female form. >> 'Twas trite in that primeval dawn >> When painting got its start, >> That a lady with her garments on >> Is Life, but is she Art? >> By undraped nymphs >> I am not wooed; >> I'd rather painters painted food. >> Food, >> Just food, >> Just any old kind of food. >> Go purloin a sirloin, my pet, >> If you'd win a devotion incredible; >> And asparagus tips vinaigrette, >> Or anything else that is edible. >> Bring salad or sausage or scrapple, >> A berry or even a beet. >> Bring an oyster, an egg, or an apple, >> As long as it's something to eat. >> If it's food, >> It's food; >> Never mind what kind of food. >> When I ponder my mind >> I consistently find >> It is glued >> On food." > > Another favorite of his: > Who wants my jellyfish? > I'm not sellyfish! > And a classic: The truth I do not stretch or shove When I state that the dog is full of love. I've also found, by actual test, A wet dog is the lovingest. Ogden Nash |
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