It is Moondai, and so it is time for our regularly scheduled mischiefery with a mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)! We are in the doldrums of the post Superb Owl letdown, so will have a few Ogdens in this vein. But this post is an Open Thread, so please feel free to discuss and post your favorite illustrated pomes on any topic in the Comments also too!
No, You Be a Lone Eagle
I find it very hard to be fair-minded
About people who go around being air-minded.
I just can't see any fun
In soaring up up up into the sun
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When the chances are still a fresh cool orchid to a paper geranium
That you'll unsoar down down down onto your (to you) invaluable cranium.
I know the constant refrain
About how safer up in God's traffic-less heaven than in an automobile or a train
But ...
My God, have you ever taken a good look at a strut?
Then that one about how you're in Boston before you can say antidisestablishmentarianism
So that preferring to take five hours by rail is a pernicious example of antiquarianism.
At least when I get on the Boston train I have a good chance of landing in the South Station
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And not in that part of the daily press which is reserved for victims of aviation.
Then, despite the assurance that aeroplanes are terribly comfortable I notice that when you are railroading or automobiling
You don't have to take a paper bag along just in case of a funny feeling.
It seems to me that no kind of depravity
Brings such speedy retribution as ignoring the law of gravity.
Therefore nobody could possibly indict me for perjury
When I swear that I wish the Wright brothers had gone in for silver fox farming or tree surgery.
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