Very Like A Whale

by Ogden NashOne thing that literature would be greatly the better forWould be a more restricted employment by the authors of simile andmetaphor.Authors of all races, be they Greeks, Romans, Teutons or Celts,Can't seem just to say that anything is the thing it is but have togo out of their way to say that it is like something else.What does it mean when we are toldThat that Assyrian came down