Sunday, July 3, 2011

Tableau at Twillight by Ogden Nash

Tableau at Twillight 
by Ogden Nash


I sit in the dusk. I am all alone.
Enter a child and an ice-cream cone.

A parent is easily beguiled
By sight of this coniferous child.

The friendly embers warmer gleam,
The cone begins to drip ice cream.

Cones are composed of many a vitamin.
My lap is not the place to bitamin.

Although my raiment is not chinchilla,
I flinch to see it become vanilla.

Coniferous child, when vanilla melts
I’d rather it melted somewhere else.

Exit child with remains of cone.
I sit in the dusk. I am all alone,

Muttering spells like an angry Druid,
Alone, in the dusk, with the cleaning fluid.



One of my all time favorite poems. Silly, funny and real life. I have included a link to read more about him. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ogden_Nash

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