All things Ogden.

Candy 

is dandy,

But liquor

is quicker.

-Ogden Nash-

(1902-1971)

The American writer/poet was famous for his light verse. Something I've discovered recently and completely enjoy! The style Nash mastered is distinct and eccentric in a way. From lines of prose that sometime seem too long to surprising rhymes that mysteriously make the prose you were reading, oddly enjoyable poetry!

He's been called a 'versifier', by some, who simply invented or misspelled words where he needed and the English language had obviously failed to provide still.

His work is refreshing stuff that's good to keep returning to.

Bits of Ogden Nash:

Always Marry An April Girl  (my favourtite:))
Praise the spells and bless the charms, I found April in my arms. April golden, April cloudy, Gracious, cruel, tender, rowdy; April soft in flowered languor, April cold with sudden anger, Ever changing, ever true -- I love April, I love you.

Everybody Tells Me Everything

I find it very difficult to enthuse Over the current news. Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens, And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons. Come On In, The Senility Is Fine 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. From that point on you start looking both ways over your shoulder, Because sometimes you feel thirty years younger and sometimes thirty years older. Now you begin to realize who it was that reached the height of imbecility, It was whoever said that grandparents have all the fun and none of the responsibility. This is the most enticing spiderwebs of a tarradiddle ever spun, Because everybody would love to have a baby around who was no responsibility and lots of fun, But I can think of no one but a mooncalf or a gaby Who would trust their own child to raise a baby. So you have to personally superintend your grandchild from diapers to pants and from bottle to spoon, Because you know that your own child hasn't sense enough to come in out of a typhoon. You don't have to live forever to become a grampa, but if you do want to live forever, Don't try to be clever; If you wish to reach the end of the trail with an uncut throat, Don't go around saying Quote I don't mind being a grampa but I hate being married to a gramma Unquote.

-When I consider how my life is spent, I hardly ever repent.-