• Some primal termite knocked on wood. And tasted it, and found it good. And that is why your Cousin May Fell through the parlor floor today.

    Ogden Nash: Some primal termite knocked on wood.
And tasted it, and found it good.
And that is why your Cousin May
Fell through the parlor floor today.
    Ogden Nash (1945). “The Selected Verse of Ogden Nash”, New York : Modern Library