Poetry Month

[moonwise]

I keep seeing poems, and today's Word of the Day is objurgate, so here's a nice crossover using both.

I objurgate the centipede,
A bug we really do not need.
At sleepy-time he beats a path
Straight to the bedroom or the bath.
You always wallop where he's not,
Or if he is, he makes a spot.

--Ogden Nash

Another Ogden Nash favorite:

The one-L lama, he's a priest
The two-L llama, he's a beast
And I would bet a silk pyjama
There isn't any three-L lllama.*

*The author's attention has been called to a type of conflagration known as a three-alarmer. Pooh.

Comments

[sarcasticval.livejournal.com]

I've never read Ogden Nash before. Now I'm kind of intrigued!

[arafel.livejournal.com]

He is the master of the pithy couplet:

Candy
Is dandy
But liquor
Is quicker.