A Poem for a Thursday #134

I picked up this book…somewhere recently. I think off the free book rack at the library? I really don’t know but I am pleased I have it. Ogden Nash’s poetry is silly and fun and just what is needed to brighten a day. I laughed at his description of a rainy vacation.

Rainy vacations
Try people's patience.
To expect rain in the autumn
Experience has tautumn,
And rain in the spring and winter
Makes no stories for the printer,
But rain on summer colonies
Breeds misdemeanors and felonies.
Summer cottages are meant just to sleep in,
Not to huddle all day in a heap in,
And whether at sea level or in higher places
There are not enough fireplaces,
And the bookcase stares at you starkly
And seems to be full of nothing but Volume II of the life
        of Rutherford B. Hayes, and The Rosary by Florence
        M. Barclay,
And everybody wishes they had brought woolens and 
        tweeds instead of linens and foulards,
And if you succeed in lining up four for bridge the only 
        deck turns out to have only fifty-one cards,
And tennis rackets grow frazzled and golf sticks rusty and 
        bathing suits moldy,
And parents grow scoldy,
And on all sides you hear nothing but raindrops going
        sputter-sput, sputter-sput,
And bureau drawers won't open and bathroom doors won't
        shut,
And all attempts at amusement fail,
Even reading the previous tenants' jettisoned mail,
Although naturally it would never have been jettisoned
If it hadn't been reticent.
But you could stand everything if it wasn't for one 
       malignant committee,
Which is the one that turns the sun on again just as you 
       are leaving for the city.
Yes indeed, rainy vacations
Certainly try people's patience. 

"Tomorrow, Partly Cloudy"
Ogden Nash