Ogden Nash and "People who work sitting down get paid more than people who work standing up." Nash, a baseball fan, wrote a poem titled "Line-Up for Yesterday," an alphabetical poem listing baseball immortals. Published in "Sport" magazine in January 1949, the poem pays tribute to the baseball greats and to his own fandom, in alphabetical order. Here is a sampling from his A to Z list: Nash particularly loved Baltimore sports teams. Nash wrote humorous poems for each movement of the Camille Saint-Saëns orchestral suite "The Carnival of the Animals", which are sometimes recited when the work is performed. The original
The Girl Who Loved Animals That when Mary senses that the baby ape staring at her knows her, but she can’t really remember how that would be possible. Jo shares her last thoughts about Mary (Lissy). Jo has filed for guardianship and if all goes well Lissy will be moving back to L.A with her. The Girl Who Loved Animals "The Girl Who Loved Animals" is a short story by American writer Bruce McAllister. This particular work of short fiction was originally published in "Omni" in May 1988. It was included in the anthology "American Gothic Tales" in 1996 along. The story describes a future