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 words to cover it… we do for our first holiday! For the second, we chose Shel Silverstein! 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!
Today is World Trick Shot Day
According to The Poetry Foundation, one of Ogden Nash’s best comic patterns was to turn cliches on their heads, such as the below. Ogden said that
The trick is that it must be someone else’s cliche and not the author’s own.
i want new york
I think those people are utterly unreliable
Who say they’d be happy on a desert island with a copy of the Biable
And Hamlet (by Shakespeare) and Don Quixote (by Cervantes)
And poems by Homer and Virgil and perhaps a thing or two of Dante’s.
And furthermore, I have a feeling that if they were marooned till the millennium’s dawn,
Very few of us would notice that they were gone.
Perhaps they don’t like my opinions any better than I like theirs,
But who cares?
If I were going to be marooned and could take only one thing along,
I’d be perfectly happy if I could take the thing which is the subject of this song.
I don’t mean anything that was brought either by the postman or the stork,
I mean the City of New York.
-snip-
What if it has a heterogeneous populace?
That is one of the privileges of being a metropulace.
And heterogeneous people don’t go around bothering each other
And you can be reasonably sure that everything you do won’t get right back to your dear old mother.
[Please read the rest at the link!]
Woozles also have some cool tricks!
Pooties have some good tricks too!