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Subject: Re: Trying to find a poem


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Judi
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Date Posted: 04:17:27 01/23/07 Tue
In reply to: Lynn 's message, "Re: Trying to find a poem" on 12:22:24 02/06/06 Mon

>I am trying to locate a poem for my mom. It was about
>a pelican. It had a play on words in it, that used
>"belly can". It made have used the words, "pelly can"
>instead of pelican. She thought it was an Ogden Nash
>poem, but I could not find it in Nash's poetry.

Here it is...
* A wonderful bird is the pelican,
His mouth can hold more than his belly can,
He can hold in his beak,
Enough food for a week!
I'm damned if I know how the hell he can!

Dixon Lanier Merritt, a Southern newspaper editor and President of the American Press Humorists Association, penned this famous limerick in 1910.

Hope this helps, Judi

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