“Ode To Ogden’s Eels”

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“I like unagi, except when soggy” — SF

Ogden Nash’s light verse was some of the first poetry I encountered as a kid. My parents had a lovely bound collection of his works that has since been passed on to me. I tended to go for the shorter ones, since I wasn’t much of a reader back then. Here’s the inspiration for my poem above:

“I don’t mind eels, except as meals” — Ogden Nash

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Much of my career in radiology has been spent studying, with great fascination, the internal mechanisms of the human body. This blog is an effort to expand that view to the outside world and also to map my own experiences engaging with it.

2 thoughts on ““Ode To Ogden’s Eels””

  1. Ogden Nash was disparaged as a doggeral poet in my youth. Has he undergone a rehabilitation now? No. I thought then, and think now that he’s just really funny. If you’re smart enough to be that funny, maybe you’re flauting poetical convention on purpose, or maybe stupid humor is sometimes successful. 3 Stooges? Iggy and the Stooges. OK must read on…

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