I Like the Works of Ogden Nash

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ChellyRocker feeling blah
Yumisiya feeling Doomed
TheOldBarn
Stahl feeling sleepy
anadude feeling optimistic
Lilt feeling exhausted
Dimples87 feeling aggravated
fungirlmmm feeling melancholy

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Reflection On a Wicked World

Purity
Is obscurity.

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Written on June 2nd, 2009
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My Dream

This is my dream,
It is my own dream,
I dreamt it.
I dreamt that my hair was kempt.
Then I dreamt that my true love unkempt it

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Written on June 2nd, 2009
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TheOldBarn

Charles Bukowski, Still Lot To Learn

I clipped this just now from a site. It's I hope Bukowski's A POEM IS A CITY.a poem is a city filled with streets and sewersfilled with saints, heroes, beggars, madmen,filled with banality and booze,filled with rain and thunder and...

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Written on May 14th, 2011
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fungirlmmm

Celery

Celery, raw
Develops the jaw,
But celery, stewed,
Is more quietly chewed.

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Written on November 29th, 2008
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Children's Party

May I join you in the doghouse, Rover?
I wish to retire till the party's over.
Since three o'clock I've done my best
To entertain each tiny guest.
My conscience now I've left behind me,
And if they want me, let them find me.
I...

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Written on June 2nd, 2009
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A Word to Husbands

To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong,admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.

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Written on June 2nd, 2009
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Stahl

I Have Heard The Name...

...but never read any of his work. I'll have to remedy that.

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Written on May 18th, 2010
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"a poem is this city now, 50 miles from nowhere, 9: 09 in the morning, the taste of liquor and cigarettes, no police, no lovers, walking the streets, this poem, this city, closing its doors, barricaded, almost empty, mournful without tears, aging without pity, the hardrock mountains, the ocean like a lavender flame, a moon destitute of greatness, a small music from broken windows..."
"They observe with glee the ballistic results Of ice cream with spoons for catapults, And inform the assembly with tears and glares That everyone's presents are better than theirs..."

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