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Parker, Douglas M.

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A Pash for Nash

Oliver Pritchett on Linell Smith & Isabel Eberstadt (eds.), Candy Is Dandy: The Best of Ogden Nash and Douglas M. Parker, Ogden Nash: The Life and Work of America’s Laureate of Light Verse

When I was about 12 my father gave me the Penguin collection, Comic and Curious Verse, selected by J. M. Cohen and priced three shillings and sixpence. Being a rather over-heated adolescent I was immediately enchanted by a short verse by Gavin Ewart: Miss Twye was soaping her breasts in the bath When she heard behind her a meaning laugh And to her amazement she discovered A wicked man in the bathroom cupboard.

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