FOSSILS, BY OGDEN NASH (1949)”
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“At midnight in the museum hall”
“The fossils gathered for a ball”
“There were no drums or saxophones,”
“But just the clatter of their bones,”
“A rolling, rattling, carefree circus”
“Of mammoth polkas and mazurkas.”
“Pterodactyls and brontosauruses”
“Sang ghostly prehistoric choruses.”
“Amid the mastodontic wassail”
“I caught the eye of one small fossil.“”
““Cheer up, sad world,” he said, and winked—”
““It’s kind of fun to be extinct.””
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