[Dixielandjazz] Poetry

[Mike Durham]

My personal favourite piece of Nash:

My baby brother Malcolm
Finds a spot of talcolm
Walcolm

Musical content? The man clearly had jazz in his soul!

Mike D.

>From: Russ Guarino <russg at redshift.com>
>To: Bill Gunter <jazzboard at hotmail.com>
>CC: dixielandjazz at ml.islandnet.com
>Subject: Re: [Dixielandjazz] Poetry
>Date: Tue, 30 Dec 2003 22:32:10 -0800
>
>Ogden's most famous poem:    "Candy's dandy, but liquor's quicker".
>
>Russ Guarino
>
>Bill Gunter wrote:
>
> > Listmates,
> >
> > Pat Ladd (the Bard of Bradford-on-Avon) wrote:
> >
> > >I find it incomprehensible that anyone could quote `poetry` with an 
>extra
> > >couple of bars stuck in >the odd line, totally upsetting the beat.
> >
> > Oh dear!  Pat, you must not be very familiar with one of America's most
> > beloved poets, Ogden Nash.
> >
> > Here is but one of his short poems:
> >
> >      The Firefly's Flame
> >
> > The Firefly's flame
> > Is something for which science has no name.
> > I can think of nothing eerier
> > Than flying around with an unidentified glow on one's posterior.
> >
> > Does this not tug at your heart?  I always choke up when I read Nash.
> >
> > Respectfully submitted,
> >
> > Bill "Beauty lover" Gunter
> > jazzboard at hotmail.com
> >
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