Another Reason I Love Odgen Nash...

[sallymn]

... in the comments to the last post about Into The Woods, a passing reference to children and fairy tales put me in mind of this poem... and for no other reason than I love it and want to share it...

Here it is:)

Don't Cry, Darling, It's Blood All Right
Whenever poets want to give you the idea that something is particularly meek and mild,

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Comments

[starwatcher307]

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Hee! I love Ogden Nash, and hadn't met this one before. Thanks for sharing.

*saves*

[sallymn]

My favourite poet, definitely :) (and given that my favourite novelist is Ogden Nash... um and now that I think about it my favourite songwriters are Flanders and Swann and Tom Lehrer, it all says something about my deeply serious and meaningful side or lack thereof :)

[jhall1]

It's very true.

I remember that on my very first day at school, aged five, some other poor little mite in my class was crying for his mother all day. Was I sympathetic? No, I just thought: "How wet."

[sallymn]

Kids are not the sweet and innocent creatures adults like to think...

[aerianya]

I may have to post that one on my classroom wall...so very true.

[sallymn]

It is, isn't it? The ones I recall best from my childhood are the darkest (I think the VERY darkest was the Little Fir Tree, which I still dream about every so often...)

[stevie_carroll]

Marvellous!

[sallymn]

He was good, he was :)