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"If"
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"What is truth?'
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https://www.poetryfoundation.org/poems-and-poets/poems/detail/46473
Fleas by Ogden Nash
Adam had 'em
thank you thank you.
Not the kind of thing to be read in the parlor with frail ladies present while sipping tea.
His best ones were about war in the Orient/Far East. We should have read them before getting involved.
Thanks for everything, Frank, and thank you for your service. I miss you.
"It's Tommy this and Tommy that and Chuck him out, the brute.
But savior of the country when the guns begin to shoot."
Grave of the hundred head is a personal fave.
http://www.kiplingsociety.co.uk/poems_gravehundred.htm
"I don't know, I've never Kippled before"
Seriously, though, Kipling was great, and "If" was one of his best.
Peace
Dan
My favorite :
"It's Tommy this and Tommy that and Chuck him out, the brute.
But savior of the country when the guns begin to shoot."
Private Atkins would feel at home today. [V]