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The Parent

by Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash

Children aren't happy with nothing to ignore,
And that's what parents were created for.




Quotes of the Day

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers

• George Orwell



Poems of the Day
  • Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    Woman To Man
    by Ella Wheeler Wilcox
    You do but jest, sir, and you jest not well, How could the hand be enemy of the arm, Or seed and sod be rivals! How could light Feel jealousy of heat, plant of the leaf