(to our Minnesotan friends )

HOW PLEASANT TO
APE MR. LEAR (II)

In Duluth there's a hostess, forsooth,
Who doesn't know gin from vermouth,
.........But this lubricant lapse
.........Isn't noticed, perhaps
Because nobody does in Duluth.
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(and a few more)

ASPIC

What a pity that aspic
Doesn't rhyme with elastic,
Because gee whiz,
It is.

YORKSHIRE PUDDING

Let's call Yorkshire pudding
A fortunate blunder;
It's sort of popover
That tripped and popped under.

FURTHER REFLECTION
ON PARSLEY

Parsley
Is gharsely.


AVANTI, GOURMETTI!

Sea horses may be Romanized
By calling them hippocampi;
If you would do the same to shrimp,
Add garlic and they're scampi.

THE TERMITE

Some primal termite knocked on wood
And tasted it, and found it good,
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.

THE KANGAROO

O Kangaroo, O Kangaroo,
Be grateful that you're in the zoo,
And not transmuted by a boomerang
To zestful tangy Kangaroo meringue.

(a "word" rhyme!)

THE LAMA

The one-l lama,
He's a priest,
The two-l llama,
He's a beast.
And I will bet
A silk pajama
There isn't any
Three-l lllama.

All poems by Ogden Nash, of course!