Ogden Nash

[matrixrefugee]

Nicked from crowdog66:

When you see this, post your favorite poem in your journal.

The People Upstairs

The people upstairs all practise ballet.
Their living room is a bowling alley.
Their bedroom is full of conducted tours.
Their radio is louder even than yours.
They celebrate weekends all the week.
When they take a shower, your ceilings leak.
They try to get their parties to mix
By supplying their guests with pogo sticks.
And when the orgy at last abates,
They go to the bathroom on roller skates.
I might love the people upstairs wondrous
If instead of above us, they just lived under us.

--Ogden Nash (I memorized this and I like to recite it to myself when I'm depressed: it's so silly!)

Comments

[crowdog66.livejournal.com]

Hee! This really cheered me up... gotta love Ogden Nash. :-)

[matrixrefugee.livejournal.com]

Oh, he's great! It's probably funnier for people who live in apartments, but I still found it hysterical (Come to think of it, I *have* had problems with noisy neighbors upstairs: squirrels and/or mice in the attic.).

[monnialexis.livejournal.com]

Gotta beg diffrence with you - I'M an upstairs person and my downstairs neighbors are week long, all night party animals. I get shouting, tantrum throwings, home theater systems blasting, musical instruments playing, fights and arguments, off key singing, banging on walls - doors, closets slamming ... all so loud that I once placed my phone on the floor and the person on the other end of the line heard it.

Downstairs people can be just as bad to.

I can't do much to get back at em - but sometimes in the mornings I do practice my Lessac vocal warm-ups ... and trust me they are the oddest sounding things one can hear.

-MA