“Lama” is the generic word. The Dalai Lama is one particularly lama, the most famous but by no means the only. Nash needn’t have been thinking of him, particularly.
PS: Actually, there are two Ls in all. (Ducks, runs)
True, that.
Other, quite wonderful, Ogden Nash verses can be found accompanying most performances of Saint-Saens’ Carnival of the Animals.
Example:
The kangaroo can jump incredible,
He has to jump because he is edible,
I could not eat a kangaroo,
But many fine Australians do,
Those with cookbooks as well as boomerangs,
Prefer him in tasty kangaroomeringues.
The cow is of the bovine ilk,
One end is moo, the other milk.
Heh. I now have a lovely mental image of the Dali Lama.
You can drink all the liquor in Costa Rikker,
Ain’t nobody’s business but my own.
And all these years I thought that wit was Taj Mahal’s.
See today’s! (Wednesday)
I’ve solved just tiny bit of the puzzle and stopped to dash off this note.
It has a gimmick that you might enjoy. Give it a try.
Actually, in the jurisdiction at issue, it is 33 vehicles and 138 persons.
I believe he later added another line as a PSA:
Pot
Is not.
I also like the fact that Ogden Nash’s U.S. postage stamp is, as far as I know, the only U.S. postage stamp ever issued of an author that actually has samples of his work on it.
Who wants my jellyfish?
I’m not sellyfish!
Or lllllllllama.
I should also add that I love Nash’s serious poetry too.
How many letters?
AFAIK, there’s no technical term for using a symbol or complete word as the entry in a single square. I first saw it about 20 years ago in “Games.”
Further Reflections on Parsley:
A sentiment I wholeheartedly agree with.
Kipling’s Vermont:
Not a haiku, but only on technicalities.