Custard the Dragon, by Ogden Nash

[boxofdelights]

So national poetry month 2013 is over. This makes 16 poems I've posted, which is not bad. Newt is as brave as a barrel full of bears, and would totally have devoured that pirate. Today he picked a fight with Aiko over who got to eat the eggshells out of the compost bucket. (The correct answer is Nobody, which of course Aiko knows, but he came over to investigate what Newt was doing and Newt took it as a challenge. Fur flew.)

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[rembrandtswife]

This has been one of my favorite poems, ever since I first read it in fifth grade.

[liv]

Oh that is wonderful! Thank you for rounding off the set by reading this one. The rhythm works much better with your accent than mine, not surprisingly, but I'd never heard it done before.