Suzy's Shack

I picked up a copy of Candy is Dandy: The best of Ogden Nash at the Strand book sale and I have been laughing since.
Nash was born in New York in 1902, he was a Harvard drop out who eventually became a editor at Doubleday publishing house, where he first began to write poetry. He is best known for his short humorous rhymes.

I think that I shall never see
A billboard lovely as a tree;
Indeed, unless the billboards fall
I'll never see a tree at all

He threw all the rules of poetry out the window, he wrote in uneven lengths, mispelled and made up words to make them rhyme and sound funny.
This collection has rhymes, puns and observations of everything under the sun.

More About People
by Ogden Nash

When people aren't asking question
They're making suggestions
And when they're not doing one of those
They're either looking over your shoulder or stepping on your toes
And then as if that weren't enough to annoy you
They employ you.
Anybody at leisure
Incurs everybody's displeasure.
It seems to be very irking
To people at work to see other people not working,
So they tell you that work is wonderful medicine,
Just look at Firestone and Ford and Edison,
And they lecture you till they're out of breath or something
And then if you don't succumb they starve you to death or something.
All of which results in a nasty quirk:
That if you don't want to work you have to work to earn enough money so that you won't have to work.

For more of Nash: http://www.westegg.com/nash/,But I'd recommend just picking up a book of his. You'll leave the bookstore chuckling...