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Poem by Ogden Nash


Requiem


There was a young belle of Natchez
Whose garments were always in patchez.
When comment arose
On the state of her clothes,
She drawled, When Ah itchez, Ah scratchez!



Ogden Nash


Ogden Nash's other poems:
  1. The Perfect Husband
  2. Lines to Be Embroidered on a Bib
  3. What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner or Later
  4. Family Court
  5. Lather As You Go


Poems of the other poets with the same name:

  • George Meredith Requiem ("Where faces are hueless, where eyelids are dewless")
  • Robert Stevenson Requiem ("Under the wide and starry sky")
  • Emily Dickinson Requiem ("Taken from men this morning")

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