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Printed from https://writing.com/main/books/entry_id/769874-Happy-New-Year
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Rated: 18+ · Book · Personal · #1455359
My musings, my rambles and I welcome you.
#769874 added December 31, 2012 at 10:49pm
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Happy New Year



Tonight’s December thirty-first,


Something is about to burst.


The clock is crouching, dark and small,


Like a time bomb in the hall.


Hark, it's midnight, children dear.


Duck! Here comes another year!"






— Ogden Nash


From Collected verse from 1929 on








Lani

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