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To: JustAmy
Keeping true faith to Polonius, who famously noted that the soul of wit is brevity, herewith the wittiest poem ever penned in the US, and possibly in the English language:

"Pouring ketchup from the bottle, "None'll come, and then a lot'll."

-- Ogden Nash

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Uh, oh. I screwed up. That couplet can't POSSIBLY be a poem because A) it rhymes and B) its metric structure is consistent.

My apologies.

4 posted on 03/01/2014 11:58:54 AM PST by SAJ
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To: SAJ



"Pouring ketchup from the bottle,
"None'll come, and then a lot'll."
-- Ogden Nash

That is great. I love Ogden Nash.
Thank you. Would love to see more.


5 posted on 03/01/2014 12:16:49 PM PST by JustAmy (Check out Cruz Control!)
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