Welp, it is Toosdai and so it is the day for some srs mischiefery with a mashery of Ogden Nashery (illustrated)! Let’s see what today is and if we have Ogden’s poetry to cover it… Googles… we do!!! We have not run out yet. And we also include a special guest star! But this post is an Open Thread, so please feel free to discuss and to post your favorite illustrated pomes in the Comments also too!
So tonight, we will again explore today’s holidays:
Today is National Just Because Day
golly, how the truth will out
(This may be a bit more topical than we would purrfer!)
How does a person get to be a capable liar?
That is something that I respectfully inquiar,
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Oh to be Machiavellian, Oh to be unscrupulous,
Oh to be glib!
Oh to be ever prepared with a plausible fib!
Because then a dinner engagement or a contract
or a treaty is no longer a fetter,
Because liars can just logically lie their way out of it if they don’t like it or if one comes along that they like better.
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There are also several excellent “Just Because” poems written by a high school class to shatter stereotypes, this one by special guest star Hayat (more at the link):
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