Fleas

Fleas. by Ogden Nash

Adam
Had'm

You may think it a joke to put this silly poem into my common place, but there is quite the many things that could be said about it.
First look at the structure. it consists of two feet, two lines two stanzas and, most notably, two words. It is also written in iambic DIameter. The poem is also neatly rhymed, so in two words, Nash has constructed the perfect poem. It is short, it easily rolls off the tongue, and it conveys a deep and ponderous message. That Adam (who soever he is) had fleas.
This may be seen as a slight on the story of Genesis. Perhaps Nash is attacking the Bible by saying that the "first of all men" had fleas. Seeing as how Nash is a poet for children, and most of his works are of no deep consequence, I am to disregard this angle, I think the name Adam was used because it so conveniently rhymes with had'm. George had'm would not work at all, neither would Jack had'm. No other name but Adam would fit into this scheme. Take for instance a girl's name like Mary. Mary had'm fist just as well as Jack and George. Not only that but it is unpleasant to think of a girl having fleas, it simply won't do.

Thus I conclude that this is the greatest poem ever written by a human being and that one would have to be a sheer nincompoop to think contrarily.