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Ogden Nash

The Fly

God in his wisdom made the fly And then forgot to tell us why.

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À Bas Ben Adhem A Caution To Everybody A Drink With Something In It A Flea And A Fly In A Flue A Lady Who Thinks She Is Thirty A Tale Of The Thirteenth Floor A Word To Husbands Adventures Of Isabel Always Marry An April Girl Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer Biological Reflection Breath Celery Children's Party Columbus Come On In, The Senility Is Fine Common Cold Crossing The Border Everybody Tells Me Everything Family Court First Child ... Second Child Fleas Further Reflections On Parsley Good-by Now Or Pardon My Gauntlet Goody For Our Side And Your Side Too Grandpa Is Ashamed I Didn't Go To Church Today I Do, I Will, I Have I Never Even Suggested It I Yield To My Learned Brother Or Is There A Candlestick Maker In The House? I'll Get One Tomorrow If He Were Alive Today, Mayhap, Mr. Morgan.. Introspective Reflection Just Keep Quiet And Nobody Will Notice Kind Of An Ode To Duty Kipling's Vermont Lather As You Go Line-up For Yesterday Lines Indited With All The Depravity Of Poverty Lines On Facing Forty Lines To Be Embroidered On A Bib Listen.. Look What You Did, Christopher! More About People Morning Prayer My Dream No Doctor's Today, Thank You No, You Be A Lone Eagle Nothing Makes Me Sicker Oh To Be Odd! Old Dr. Valentine To His Son Old Men One From One Leaves Two One Third Of The Calendar Peekabo, I Almost See You Pg Wooster, Just As He Useter Portrait Of The Artist As A Prematurely Old Man Possessions Are Nine Points Of Conversation Pretty Halcyon Days Reflection On A Wicked World Reflection On Babies Reflection On Caution Reflection On The Fallibility Of Nemesis Reflections On Ice Breaking Reprise Requiem Samson Agonistes So Does Everybody Else, Only Not So Much Soliloquy In Circles Song Of The Open Road Song To Be Sung By The Father Of Infant Female Children Spring Comes To Murray Hill Summer Serenade Tableau At Twilight The Abominable Snowman The Ant The Bargain The Boy Who Laughed At Santa Claus The Camel The Canary The Cantaloupe The Catsup Bottle The Centipede The Chipmunk The Clean Plater The Cow The Cuckoo The Dog The Duck The Eel The Firefly The Fly The Germ The Grackle The Guppy The Hippopotamus The Hunter The Jellyfish The Joyous Malingerer The Lion The Middle The Octopus The Ostrich The Parent The People Upstairs The Perfect Husband The Pig The Porcupine The Praying Mantis The Purist The Rhinoceros The Romantic Age The Shrimp The Sniffle The Solitary Huntsman The Squab The Sunset Years Of Samuel Shy The Swan The Tale Of Custard The Dragon The Termite The Terrible People The Turtle The Wasp Tin Wedding Whistle To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them To My Valentine Two Dogs Have I Very Like A Whale What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner Or Later What's The Use? Will Consider Situation Winter Complaint You Can Be A Republican, I'm A Genocrat

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