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Ogden Nash - You Can Be A Republican, I`m A Genocrat
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Oh, "rorty" was a mid-Victorian word
Which meant "fine, splendid, jolly,"
And often to me it has reoccurred
In moments melancholy.
For instance, children, I think it rorty
To be with people over forty. 

I can`t say which, come eventide,
More tedious I find;
Competing with the juvenile stride,
Or meeting the juvenile mind.
So I think it rorty, yes, and nifty,
To be with people over fifty. 

The pidgin talk the youthful use
Bypasses conversation.
I can`t believe the code they choose
Is a means of communication.
Oh to be with people over sixty
Despite their tendency to prolixty! 

The hours a working parent keeps
Mean less than Latin to them,
Wherefore they disappear in jeeps
Till three and four A.M.
Oh, to be with people you pour a cup for
Instead of people you have to wait up for! 

I`ve tried to read young mumbling lips
Till I`ve developed a slant-eye,
And my hearing fails at the constant wails
Of, If I can`t, why can`t I?
Oh, to be beside a septuagenarian,
Silent upon a peak in Darien! 

They don`t know Hagen from Bobby Jones,
They never heard of Al Smith,
Even Red Grange is beyond their range,
And Dempsey is a myth.
Oh golly, to gabble upon the shoulder
Of someone my own age, or even older! 

I`m tired of defining hadn`t oughts.
To opposition mulish,
The thoughts of youth are long long thoughts,
And Jingo! Aren`t they foolish!
All which is why, in case you`ve wondered
I`d like a companion aged one hundred.
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