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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none"><div style="margin:10px 0"><strong>Sesquipedalian (With Apologies To Ogden Nash)</strong></div><div style="margin:10px 0">My poems are somewhat, in fact quite a lot, not to put too fine a point on it, just a bit or, notwithstanding everything else I will say, a great deal sesquipedalian; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">They are packed full, to wit, of long-winded words that don’t fit and ululating complicated and multi-syllabic, incomprehensible terms that feel almost alien.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m not sure if, for cash, that flash, brash Ogden Nash hasn’t had the notion of creating this version; if not, then he should have done</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Or whether, if other bards in that scene had thought really hard of a means of fitting “sesquipedalian” in, they would have done.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But these trite tongue-twisters titillate the tonsils and test the talker</div><div style="margin:10px 0">And I like lines that don’t quite rhyme, even though they ought to.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">My odes ramble on as I try to make simile and metaphor fit.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I think it’s fine fun and that they just sound better for it.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">But some of that ilk try to milk your emotions</div><div style="margin:10px 0">With a totally misplaced unfounded notion</div><div style="margin:10px 0">You should cram every short sentence; </div><div style="margin:10px 0">Mine just go on and lengthen.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">It’s not my fault that I chose</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be quite over-verbose.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Don’t have it in for me: <br> <br>I’m seeking sympathy.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’d love to be laconic, </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But it’s just chronic.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Eschewing levity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Going for brevity.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I really do lust</div><div style="margin:10px 0">To be brusque.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I ought to</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Be shorter</div><div style="margin:10px 0">I’m sure I</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Could try</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Terse</div><div style="margin:10px 0">Verse: </div><div style="margin:10px 0">True, <br> <br>Too.</div><div style="margin:10px 0">By? <br> <br>I? </div><div style="margin:10px 0">But my poems are somewhat, in fact quite a lot, not to put too fine a point on it, just a bit <br>or, notwithstanding everything else I have said, a great deal (but I’m sure you won’t mind as I’ve reached the next line, which is where I should stop and let the matter drop) outstandingly boringly, snoringly sesquipedalian.</div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><br />poem by <a href="http://en.citatepedia.ro/by.php?a=C.+Richard+Miles">C. Richard Miles</a><div class=q>
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