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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. No, You Be a Lone Eagle
  2. Bankers Are Just Like Anybody Else, Except Richer
  3. Just Keep Quiet and Nobody Will Notice
  4. Celery
  5. Reflection on Babies


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")

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