Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.

(C) Ogden Nash
04/03/2017


Best Poems of Ogden Nash

• The Turtle
• The Jellyfish
• The People Upstairs
• Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer
• Old Men
• Listen...
• Family Court
• Tin Wedding Whistle
• The Praying Mantis
• The Bargain
• The Cuckoo
• The Hunter
• The Squab
• A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty
• Ice Breaking
• The Chipmunk
• The Camel
• Columbus
• The Firefly
• The Centipede
• The Cow