[New-Poetry] And a little trivia for the new year...

[TheOldMole]

They certainly both should have reference Anny. But the answer lies 
elsewhere. It's mad Nijinksy, about shom Auden tells us that what he 
wrote about Diaghilev is true of the human heart. and who appears on the 
epidermis of  Lydia the tattooed lady doing the rhumba, right next to 
Lydia's Social Security numba. Sung by Groucho, written by Harold Arlen 
and E. Y. Harburg.

For reasons obscure to me now, I was once invited to Yip Harburg's 
Christmas party, which involved singing carols around the piano, with 
Yip, octogenarian but still lively, at the piano. Among the guests was 
Paul Robeson Jr., who looked very much like his father, had a deep 
baritone voice...and couldn't carry a tune in a bucket.



Anny Ballardini wrote:
> _me_
>   !
>
> From: "Halvard Johnson" <halvard at earthlink.net>
> Sent: Thursday, January 03, 2008 7:18 PM
>
>
>> Best guess: Shakespeare
>> Second-best guess: Ogden Nash
>>
>> Hal
>>
>> "In America, it's the bottom of the ninth,
>> we're five runs behind, there are two outs,
>> nobody on base, weak hitter at the plate,
>> and the fat lady's getting up to sing."
>>                 --Anon.
>>
>> Halvard Johnson
>> ================
>> halvard at earthlink.net
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/index.html
>> http://entropyandme.blogspot.com
>> http://imageswithoutwords.blogspot.com
>> http://www.hamiltonstone.org
>> http://home.earthlink.net/~halvard/vidalocabooks.html
>>
>>
>>
>> On Jan 1, 2008, at 3:42 PM, TheOldMole wrote:
>>
>>> Who is referenced by both Auden and Groucho Marx?
>>>
>>> -- 
>>> Tad Richards
>>> http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
>>> http://opusforty.blogspot.com/
>>>
>>> The moral is this: in American verse,
>>> The better you are, the pay is worse.
>>> --Corey Ford
>
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-- 
Tad Richards
http://www.opus40.org/tadrichards/
http://opusforty.blogspot.com/

The moral is this: in American verse,
The better you are, the pay is worse.
  --Corey Ford