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Don't know 0. Titled "If Anything Should Arise, It Isn't i". if this is of interest. From Ogden Nash, around 1950. Titled "If Anything Should Arise, It Isn't i". A prepared position Man hankers for Is parallel to and above the floor, For thither retreating horizontally, He evades the issues that charge him frontally. But pumpkins do not burgeon in Maytime, And bed is out of bounds in daytime. A man in pajamas after nine Transgresses the housewife's Party Line. He's unethical and unpatriotic, Unkempt, uncouth, unaristocrotic, Unwept, unhonored, unsung, unread, And, if he doesn't get up, unfed. That is why he smiles when the moment comes When hands are hot and forehead hums, When throat is parched and nostrils rankle And legs are aching from knee to ankle. Making sure the housewife observes his plight, He bravely whispers he's quite all right, What's a spot of fever, a spell of dizziness. Where's his hat, he is off to business. So she telephones the office for him, And stoups of lemonade doth pour him, And trees his shoes and hangs his clothes up And introduces drops his nose up, She fetches toast as light as frothii, And bouillon, consommé and broth, And be he Harvardite or Yaleite, She orders him to bed by daylight, Like Heaven chastening a Baalite She orders him to bed by daylight. Beneath the sheets he cracks his knuckles And chokes to cover up his chuckles, And coughs a spirited cadenza In grateful praise of influenza. | ||
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