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"Everybody Tells Me Everything" and "More About People" by Ogden Nash

Everybody Tells Me Everything


I find it very difficult to enthuse
Over the current news.
Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no
blacker, it worsens,
And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era
when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.


More About People



When people aren't asking questions
They're making suggestions
And when they're not doing one of those
They're either looking over your shoulder or stepping on your toes
And then as if that weren't enough to annoy you
They employ you.
Anybody at leisure
Incurs everybody's displeasure.
It seems to be very irking
To people at work to see other people not working,
So they tell you that work is wonderful medicine,
Just look at Firestone and Ford and Edison,
And they lecture you till they're out of breath or something
And then if you don't succumb they starve you to death or something.
All of which results in a nasty quirk:
That if you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

Ogden Nash



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