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.
A Caution To Everybody
Analysis, meaning and summary of Ogden Nash's poem A Caution To Everybody
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hey i have Ogden Nash as a project in school and i love his poems and researching about his life is pretty cool and i read some of his poems and they are amazing and live next to were his grew up and were he is buried and i will probaly go visit him one day. BYE
A Caution To Everybody
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.
Ogden Nash
-HAHA I outsmarted the system. Don’t be surprised if this commment is removed…
That’s good, but has too much rhymes.
Maybe the caution to heed is that the copyright holder doesn’t like “A Caution To Everyone” because the caution warns people of deplorable traits particular to people like the copyright holder.
The copyright holder is by law
entitled to project his jaw,
state his case as his lawyer saw.
But there are those who see his greed
as callous and would pray he heed
a higher law for those in need
of Ogden’s wit and careless folly
Go take your law and selfish ways
and stick it where it does not pays.
I feel so robbed. I sincerely doubt that the author would oppose his poetry being online. Whoever holds that copyright should be ashamed and die peniless.