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Then blessings on thee, my afternoon torpor Thou makest a prince of a mental porpor.

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Is something for which science has no name. I can think of nothing eerier Than flying around with an unidentified red glow on a person's posterior.

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The armadillo lives inside A corrugated plated hide. Below the border this useful creature Of tidy kitchens use a feature, For housewives use an armadillo To scour their pots, instead of Brillo.

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So Columbus said, somebody show me the sunset and somebody did and he set sail for it, And he discovered America and they put him in jail for it, And the fetters gave him welts, And they named America after somebody else.

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The manatee is harmless And conspicuously charmless. Luckily the manatee Is quite devoid of vanity.

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Ogden Nash

Born: August 19, 1902

Died: May 19, 1971 (aged 68)

Bio: Frederic Ogden Nash was an American poet well known for his light verse. At the time of his death in 1971, The New York Times said his "droll verse with its unconventional rhymes made him the country's best-known producer of humorous poetry".

Known for:

The Tale of Custard the Dragon (1936)
The Best of Ogden Nash
The adventures of Isabel (1963)
Selected Poetry of Ogden Nash
The pocket book of Ogden Nash (1955)

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