Not corrections -- just supplementations.

A bit of online research reveals (not much):


Though often attributed to Ogden Nash or ee cummings (and popularized in the UK by Spike Milligan), the poem has roots that go back further in time to an anonymous author. There are many versions. Here’s one:

Spring is sprung, de grass is riz; I wonder where dem boidies is? Dey say dem boids is on the wing. But dat's absurd, de wing's on de boid! Or so I’ve hoid.

And there’s a less-known addendum:
Spring is what winta
Always gozinta.

Nance, you are growing more experienced with every tasting! Definitely proud of you for broadening your tastes.

H.B., FCK!

Or maybe a guest blogger.

YW.

Yeah, what Shelley, Dan, Ray, and Paul said.... There are soooo many asks, and so many causes, that it becomes very much an ad hoc decision, because each situation can vary greatly from the next.

Perhaps consider the “classics” like Dostoyevsky, Voltaire, Beckett, Swift, James, Michener, Tolstoy, Joyce, Hemingway, Camus, Vonnegut, Shakespeare, Fitzgerald, Carson, Salinger, Orwell, Wharton, Lee, Faulkner, Morrison, Updike, Austen, Hawthorne, Nabokov, Woolf, Dickens, Remarque, Alcott, Carroll, Kafka, Wilde, Ellison, Conrad, Lawrence, Hugo, Wright, Roth, and many more. I’ve recently begun to do this. There are reasons they’ve endured over the decades and centuries. But then again, I was an English lit major, and rarely find that the book-of-the-moment can compare to the greats. Perhaps one of these decades I’ll come out of the prior century (centuries) and into the new millennium…. ;^) Google a few authors for a short description of their books, and pick one that grabs you.

I remember having the full set of World Book encyclopedia in my room when I was a child. I gave myself the assignment of first reading the entire Webster's dictionary, and once I finished that, I embarked on the encyclopedia set -- I made it from "A" to somewhere around "M" before I figured I'd learned enough.... ;^)

Thanks, AC. We definitely made up for a lot of the past 4 decades of missed travel opportunities.