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Beneath this slab John Brown is stowed. He watched the ads, And not the road.

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Ogden Nash
Age: 68 †
Born: 1902
Born: August 19
Died: 1971
Died: May 19
Poet
Screenwriter
Writer
New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
John
Road
Slab
Slabs
Ads
Watched
Beneath
Brown

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