[lit-ideas] Re: Ogden Nash for Monday
- From: David Ritchie <ritchierd@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <lit-ideas@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Sun, 22 May 2005 22:36:18 -0700
on 5/22/05 10:01 PM, Mirembe Nantongo at nantongo@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> With many thanks to Mike, David and Erin for their Sunday poems, here is
> Ogden Nash feeling as I wish I felt this morning:
>
> No Doctors Today, Thank You by Ogden Nash
> ---------------------------------
>
> They tell me that euphoria is the feeling of feeling wonderful,
> Well, today I feel euphorian,
>
Brill. I am finally home after graduation. I have done what I imagine
Mirembe does for a living. I have been diplomatic until I feel robotic.
"Hello... your son? Very well done. I remember..." One great moment
though. One of my better students this semester has a Dad who recently
married a woman from Glasgow. The student introduces his Dad. I shake his
hand and say, "Pleased to meet you." I hear the woman from Glasgow. (It's
an accent that cuts through background noise.) I turn to meet her. A
Bengali face...the Glasgow accent...she's really beautiful... Nary a beat,
"Isn't Damien's display really something?"
And now Mirembe reminds me that I have six volumes of Ogden Nash waiting to
be ruffled through. What a bright prospect. When I have had some sleep,
I'll look forward to joining Mirembe's and your Monday.
David Ritchie
Portland, Oregon
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