I like the duck-billed platypus Because it is anomalous. I … - Ogden Nash

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I like the duck-billed platypus
Because it is anomalous.
I like the way it raises its family
Partly birdly, partly mammaly.
I like its independent attitude.
Let no one call it a duck-billed platitude.

Ogden Nash

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Ogden Nash (19 August 1902 – 19 May 1971) was an American poet.

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