September 11, 2020

Beware all husbands and those with people upstairs

Poor Ogden, the poet, possibly got in trouble with his wife for being too close, here, to the busty lady, nicknamed "Dagmar" (a presenter for the TV game show "Masquerade Party") in 1955.
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The People Upstairs

By Ogden Nash (1902 – 1971) 

The people upstairs all practise ballet
Their living room is a bowling alley
Their bedroom is full of conducted tours.
Their radio is louder than yours,

They celebrate week-ends all the week.
When they take a shower, your ceilings leak.
They try to get their parties to mix
By supplying their guests with Pogo sticks,

And when their fun at last abates,
They go to the bathroom on roller skates.
I might love the people upstairs more
If only they lived on another floor.

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A Word To Husbands

Also by Ogden Nash.

To keep your marriage brimming
With love in the loving cup,
Whenever you're wrong, admit it;
Whenever you're right, shut up.

Poor Ogden died early of complications from Crohn's disease aggravated by severe food poisoning (coleslaw “improperly prepared”).

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