Ogden Nash

I'm sorry to tell you this, but beauty fades with the passing of the years.

Ogden Nash put it this way, beauty's only skin deep, ugly goes to the bone.

Beauty simply fades away, but ugly holds its own.

I'm telling you, you're going to get older.

At home, you know, there were moments where my father could be lost in beautiful silliness.

So he would love the po- you know, poems of Ogden Nash and stuff like that, and he would laugh, and then when there were moments when he was listening to classical music, I would watch him, and he'd just be absolutely transformed.

But most of the time, I was terrified of him because you just never knew if he had a bad day at work.

You just never knew what was gonna happen when the door opened.

And it was I, Walter Denton, who did the denting.

You've been reading too much Ogden Nash.

What did Mr. Conklin say to that, Walter? He

said, Denton, I admire your honesty.

I'm not sure that your feet could have coped with all that walking.

I'm always a bit worried about zoos too without... poem of was it Cecil Day-Lewis or one of the no that man that did all those rhymes Ogden Nash no Yes, Ogden Nash.

Okay.

About a child at a zoo.

there was a child

that was eaten in

an Ogden Nash.

Or was it Helaire Belloc?

Isn't that cute? And

there, you brought another fig and sparrow situation for me by referencing the Ogden Nash...

What is it? Whales have calves.

Yes.

And it was I, Walter Denton, who did the denting.

You've been reading too much Ogden Nash.

What did Mr. Conklin say to that, Walter?

He said, Denton, I admire your honesty.