It's Poetry Month!! -- Ogden Nash (and another)

[chamuda]

Because I'm feeling cheeky . . . .

A Caution to Everybody
by Ogden Nash

Consider the auk;
Becoming extinct because he forgot how to fly, and could only walk.
Consider man, who may well become extinct
Because he forgot how to walk and learned how to fly before he thinked.

Bonus:

(I don't know who originated/wrote it--but my aunt recited this ditty to me when I was 9 or 10.  It is exactly the sort of thing that appeals to one of that age.)

Arty Farty had a party,

And all the shits were there.
Winky Dinky laid a stinky,
And they all went out for air.