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Here is a pen and here is a pencil,
Here's a typewriter, here's a stencil,
Here is a list of today's appointments,
And all the flies in all the ointments,
The daily woes that a man endures—
Take them, George, they're yours!

Ogden Nash

Ogden Nash (1902–1971), U.S. poet. Let George Do It, If You Can Find Him, The Primrose Path (1935).

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