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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:
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Unless liberties you pilfer. }}
* [[Little Did I Know]]: ''Don't Guess, Let Me Tell You''.
* [[Long Title]]: Relative to the poems they're assigned to, an often inescapable consequence of the brevity of his wit; at other times an example of his wit by themselves. Among them "On the Antiquity of Fleas", which is three times as long as the poem itself, and "To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them".
* [[Missing Floor]]: ''A Tale of the Thirteenth Floor''.
* [[Painful Rhyme]]: Though done deliberately, and often lampshaded by changes in the spelling.
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Or the Axis hates the United States,
That's how much I love you.... }}
* [[Spoiled Brat]]: The subject of "To A Small Boy Standing On My Shoes While I Am Wearing Them", at least in the eyes of the narrator.
* [[Spotlight-Stealing Title]]:
{{quote|''The Self-Effacement of Electra Thorne'':
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