A Random Little Rhyme for a Random Little Time (Don't tell me. I know. That was a silly title for a post.)

But anyway,  what does it matter?  This is a silly post.  Silly title.  Silly post.  They go together, right?  Right. (Well, well, well...sorry, I just got this silly song in my head.  Don't worry, though, I won't go there.  A silly post and a silly title is quite enough silliness for one day.  No need to overdo it by adding silly singing to the mix. ;))
 

Anyway!  On to the point of this post.  My brother was skimming through a poem book by Ogden Nash last night and he came across this poem.  Naturally, my sister and I were curious to know what it was about when we heard him laughing over it, and so he agreed to read it aloud to us.  I found it highly amusing.  And I hope you will, too, because that's why I'm here-- to share it with you. (Oh, that's alright.  Don't mention it.  I like to share.)    

 

 

That Hat's Got my Tongue

By Ogden Nash

 

 

A girl, oh a girl is a wonderful thing,

And so I am happy to say is spring,

And a girl in spring is the absolute works

But for one conspicuous item that irks:

That hat.

 

 

A girl in spring is a skylark's hymn,

An evensong in a cloister dim,

A moon in June and a dove in love,

But why the discordant detail above:
 

That hat?

 

 

The crocuses put their best feet foremost,

The softest, tenderest raindrops pour most,

Nature walks forth in a robe of dawn,

And you, my love, what do you put on?
 

That hat.

 

Purple the lilac and green the oaks,

Is spring the time for a milliner's hoax?

Your taste, methought, simply hibernated;

But what did I get when for spring I waited?
 

That hat.

 

 

A girl, oh a girl is a wonderful thing,

And so I am happy to say is spring,

And you are what I adore the sight of;

That hat is what I adore you in spite of--
 

Take it off and let's jump on it!

 

 

 

Have a lovely spring day, my friends! (With no hats.)

 

 

Sincerely,

Miss March