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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
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New York
United States
Frederic Ogden Nash
Road
Slab
Slabs
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Watched
Beneath
Brown
John

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