I tore the paper from this volume, from my perfecto jogged an ash,
  And, lo and behold, the book was "The Primrose Path" by Ogden Nash!
  Now far be it from me to titter at your
  Ideas of what constitutes Literature,
  But if anybody asks me anxiously who can rescue humorous poetry from the ash can,
  I shall unhesitatingly answer, "Nash can."
  I have heard people say, "It is a clever idea,
  But he will be unable to keep it up indefinitely, I feah.
  And of course, once you see how it's done, anybody can do it easily."
  They say that very confidently and breezily—
  But I remember that people first said it
  When Ogden Nash had only one book ("Hard Lines") to his credit,
  And here is the fifth book, and even better than his first one,
  And it isn't likely that his fifteenth, even, will be...