This poem has a profundity which may well be overlooked because
Ogden Nash wrote light-hearted humerous verse.
The most telling lines are:-
He loneliest is when he pretends
That he is not alone
Listen - Ogden Nash
2004-11-21
Added by: Charlie Baird
This poem so eloquently sums up the phenomenological nature of what it is to be human...the urge to communicate feeling and the existintial inability to be heard -beautiful.
Ogden Nash wrote light-hearted humerous verse.
The most telling lines are:-
He loneliest is when he pretends
That he is not alone