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… no, not today! But Thomas Merton amusingly spoofed Ogden Nash on this subject. 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 one of today’s holidays:
Today is National Cheese Curd Day!
cheese
by Thomas Merton
I think that we should never freeze
Such lively assets as our cheese:
The sucker’s hungry mouth is pressed
Against the cheese’s caraway breast
A cheese, whose scent like sweet perfume
Pervades the house through every room.
A cheese that may at Christmas wear
A suit of cellophane underwear,
Upon whose bosom is a label,
Whose habitat: - The Tower of Babel.
Poems are nought but warmed-up breeze,
Dollars are made by Trappist Cheese.
[“Thomas Merton (1915-1968) is arguably the most influential American Catholic author of the twentieth century.” Read all about him at the link!]