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<div style="background:#fff;border:#bbb dashed 1px;padding:5px"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/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"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Or whether, if other bards in that scene had thought really hard of a means of fitting “sesquipedalian” in, they would have done.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But these trite tongue-twisters titillate the tonsils and test the talker</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">And I like lines that don’t quite rhyme, even though they ought to.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">My odes ramble on as I try to make simile and metaphor fit.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I think it’s fine fun and that they just sound better for it.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But some of that ilk try to milk your emotions</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">With a totally misplaced unfounded notion</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">You should cram every short sentence; </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Mine just go on and lengthen.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">It’s not my fault that I chose</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">To be quite over-verbose.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Don’t have it in for me: <br> <br>I’m seeking sympathy.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I’d love to be laconic, </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">But it’s just chronic.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Eschewing levity.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Going for brevity.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I really do lust</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">To be brusque.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I ought to</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Be shorter</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">I’m sure I</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Could try</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Terse</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">Verse: </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">True, <br> <br>Too.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">By? <br> <br>I? </a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><a href="http://www.citatepedia.com/comments.php?id=571633" style="color:#000;text-decoration:none">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.</a></div><div style="margin:10px 0"><br /></a><a href="http://poems.citatepedia.com/">poem</a> by <strong><a rel="author" href="http://authors.citatepedia.com/by.php?a=C.+Richard+Miles">C. Richard Miles</a></strong></div>