Sunday, August 20, 2006

Happy Birthday, Ogden

Ogden Nash
Born this day in 1902...

Everybody knows his funny stuff, but he also wrote more poignant things. This is one of my favorites (and there are a few more here:

Old Men

People expect old men to die,
They do not really mourn old men.
Old men are different. People look
At them with eyes that wonder when...
People watch with unshocked eyes;
But the old men know when an old man dies.

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