Good Riddance, but Now What? / Ogden Nash

Good Riddance, But Now What?

Come, children, gather round my knee;
Something is about to be.
Tonight’s December thirty-first,
Something is about to burst.
The clock is crouching, dark and small,
Like a time bomb in the hall.
Hark! It’s midnight, children dear.
Duck! Here comes another year.

~~
Ogden Nash (1902-1971)
from Versus,1949

[Poem is in the public domain in Canada]

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"Good Riddance, But Now What?" read by Anthony Roberts. Courtesy Colchester Arts Centre.