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[[Ogden Nash]] (1902-1971) was one of the great writers of American humorous poetry, noted for couplets or other poems that rhyme, but [[Painful Rhyme|the lines are of different length and irregular meter]]. He lived in Baltimore most of his life, and included several paeans to it in his work. Also noted are his series of poems set to Camille Saint-Saens' "Carnival Of The Animals".
He was also verified by the ''[[Guinness World Records|Guinness Book Of World Records]]'' as having composed the shortest published poem: "On the Antiquity of Fleas", which consists of merely "Adam/Had'em."
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* [[The So-Called Coward]]: ''Custard the Dragon'' is about a woman named Belinda who lived with a kitten, a mouse, a dog, and a dragon. Counter-intuitively, the kitten, mouse, and dog were all described as being very brave, while the dragon was a coward. However, when a pirate broke into the house and threatened Belinda, the three supposedly
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