I think that. is Dorothy Parker.
And Snowboarder Bo,yours sounds like a Burma Shave ad.
Cool! Thanks! I love that’n!
I’ve enjoyed Nash’s poetry since I was a little kid, especially his narration to Saint-Saëns’ Carnival of the Animals.
Ah, yes. Fred Nash. Funny guy.
No, it’s Nash. He later added a third line: Pot is not.
The Ant
The ant has made herself illustrious
By constant industry industrious.
So what? Would you be calm and placid
If you were full of formic acid?
I believe this one is also by Nash, although I’m not positive.
I eat my peas with honey;
I’ve done it all my life.
It makes the peas taste funny,
But it keeps them on the knife.
As far as I remember, he was first broached in eighth-grade English (1978-9 in my case).
I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Indeed, unless the billboards fall,
I’ll never see a tree at all.
“a waterbed filled with wine” 
‘The Lama’ is one of my favorites, too. Another one of my favorites, since I was a kid, is one I recite whenever I can:
A panther is like a leopard
Except it hasn’t been peppered.
If you behold a panther crouch
Prepare to say, ‘Ouch!’
Better yet, if called by a panther
Don’t anther.
The Turtle
The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks
Which practically conceal its sex.
I think it clever of the turtle
in such a fix to be so fertile.
Love his stuff - makes me smile and is really well crafted.
Why’s this thread is IMHO?
A poetry thread won’t get much show.
Shouldn’t this be in Cafe Society?
I believe so - but not with piety.
“I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree.
Perhaps, unless the billboards falls,
I’ll never see a tree at all.”
Still, sadly, relevant.
Moving over to CS.
The Shrimp
A shrimp who sought his lady shrimp
Could catch no glimpse,
Not even a glimp.
At times, translucence
Is rather a nuisance.
The Germ
A mighty creature is the germ,
Though smaller than a pachyderm.
His customary dwelling place
Is deep within the human race.
His childish pride he often pleases
By giving people strange diseases.
Do you, my poppet, feel infirm?
You probably contain a germ.
I remember my Dad reading this one to us. RIP, Dad.
I always liked his humorous verse but I did not get the serious undertones of much of it until later. This was the first to throw me for for a loop and make me realize “this isn’t just Nipsey Russell”, because it’s actually very somber, especially having grown up around many old people:
People expect old men to die.
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when…
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.
Wow.
Like** C3**, I was mostly exposed, at a young age, to a book collection of his animal poems. A couple of times in high school, one of his poems would be an entry in an anthology that was being used, but he was never explicitly taught.
Now I’m wondering how much I missed by only knowing the animals. There may be googling.
As a kid in the '60s I had the Pocket Book of Ogden Nash collection, which I read over and over until it fell apart. Always loved his stuff.
I wonder if Nash ever expressed an opinion of Henry Gibson from Laugh In.
Nash was so distinctive that everyone from MAD to National Lampoon had a go of parodying him.
The weirdest one I know, though, was by of all people Robert Coover, who used him to attack Nixon during Watergate. It’s called “The Royal Treatment” and starts like this: