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Poem by Ogden Nash


A Caution to Everybody


Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.



Ogden Nash


Ogden Nash's other poems:
  1. Everybody Tells Me Everything
  2. Kipling's Vermont
  3. The Perfect Husband
  4. The Abominable Snowman
  5. To My Valentine


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