https://interestingliterature.com/2019/11/10-of-the-best-ogden-nash-poems-everyone-should-read/
#2 is particularly well known.
#5 presages the current pronoun wars
#6 is a serious, and poignant, exception to the comical wit of the others
#8 is a striking combination – a serious subject expressed in a comic metaphor
#10 is a more humorous extension of the idea in 6
He was not, in fact, deficient in “psycho-spiritual activity” – he just left off the “fancy, time-consuming” part of it.

However, this is my favorite short-short poem.
“Lines on the Antiquity of Microbes; or, Fleas”
Adam
had ’em.

https://genius.com/Strickland-gillilan-lines-on-the-antiquity-of-microbes-fleas-annotated
“Often attributed to Shel Silverstein, Ogden Nash, or simply an unknown or anonymous author, this poem was likely really penned by Strickland Gillilan.”

Thanks Aesop!

I keep my lamas straight thusly:
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The one-l lama,
He’s a priest.
The two-l llama,
He’s a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn’t any
Three-l lllama.

–Ogden Nash
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I used to argue with poets who insisted poetry required “contemplation” or some fancy, time-consuming, psycho-spiritual activity by quoting Ogden Nash or other such poets. Not that it did much good.

Here’s to Ogden Nash.

“Apart from the Heinlein short story about Llamas buying an IBM tabulating machine and grinding out the Names of God,” – Zaphod

Did a double-take there on the visual of llamas & computers, however:
It was Clarke writing about lamas.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Nine_Billion_Names_of_God

One of my favorites. Best punchline ever, so DON’T read the Wiki article if you haven’t read the story.

In an open thread like this, there’s no topic although I provide a sort of opening topic, if anyone wants to take it up, with a video or photo and/or a few words. However, sometimes the threads degenerate into fighting, which I try to monitor but sometimes I’m too busy and it gets past me. Some arguing or fighting is okay, but I try to discourage petty personal squabbling, name-calling, and obscenities.

kind of like an open poetry share

thanks

It’s an Open Thread, so I take it anything civil goes. Your mileage may vary.

I’m talking about UFOs because Snow on Pine brought them up and I have some thoughts too.

https://lawliberty.org/why-we-need-truly-free-markets/

. . . Liberals frame their policies as the antidote to what they argue is a “capitalist system” of exploitation, and conservatives are quick to label such programs as “socialist.” In truth, these policies represent not capitalism as a system of free exchange, but the ultimate form of crony capitalism—the explicit exchange of favors between business and government, which takes power and money from the people and centralizes it in the hands of a few elites. Today’s Left equates the two because it offers not a return to a free economy, but just a different form of elite domination.

The real conflict of our time, then, ought to be understood as the struggle for localized and virtuous free markets against a corrupt political-economic regime. That ought to unite Americans in the defense of freedom. . . . .

The Left has rather successfully established this premise: crony capitalism is capitalism. . . . . .

. . . it’s not capitalism we should be against, but the centralization of power that elites of all stripes continue to support.

https://lawliberty.org/why-we-need-truly-free-markets/

The Left has rather successfully established this premise: crony capitalism is capitalism. . . . . . it’s not capitalism we should be against, but the centralization of power that elites of all stripes continue to support.