From Making Light, a bit of timeless poetry:


Senator Smoot (Republican, Ut.)

Is planning a ban on smut.

Oh, rooti-ti-toot for Smoot of Ut.

And his reverent occiput.

Smite, Smoot, smite for Ut.,

Grit your molars and do your dut.,

Gird up your l—ns,

Smite h-p and th-gh,

We’ll all be Kansas

By and by.

—Ogden Nash, “Invocation,” 1931