He use no lotions For allurance. He got no car And no insurance.
No Alsop warnings, No Pearson rumor For this self-centered Non-consumer.
Indeed, the Ignorant Have-Not Don't even know What he don't got.
If you will mind The box-tops, comma, I think I'll go And join that lama.
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Written in 1948, this is pretty standard Ogden Nash fare, filled with a clever rhyme scheme and rhythm.
Nash takes the title from the first line of W.B. Yeats' “Lake Isle of Innisfree,” suggesting that he wishes to escape to a peaceful, utopian place. In this case, the thing he’s escaping from is what he sees as the crass commercialism of modern society.
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