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Poem by Ogden Nash


The Turtle


 The turtle lives 'twixt plated decks 
 Which practically conceal its sex.   
 I think it clever of the turtle    
 In such a fix to be so fertile.   



Ogden Nash


Ogden Nash's other poems:
  1. The Praying Mantis
  2. No, You Be a Lone Eagle
  3. What Almost Every Woman Knows Sooner or Later
  4. Listen...
  5. I Didn't Go to Church Today


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