what's the name of this poem by Ogden Nash ?

Question

i remember this quote from my childhoood but dont know the name of the poem by ogden nash....

"some pains are physical some are mental,
but one that is both is dental".

i'd love to read the whole poem but can't find it as i don't remember it's name . can someone help?

Answer 1

This Is Going To Hurt Just a Little Bit, by Ogden Nash

One thing I like less than most things is sitting in a dentist chair with my mouth wide open.


And that I will never have to do it again is a hope that I am against hope hopan.


Because some tortures are physical and some are mental,


But the one that is both is dental.


It is hard to be self possessed


With your jaw digging into your chest,


so hard to retain calm


When your fingernails are making serious alterations in your life line or love line or some other important line in your palm,


So hard to give your ususal cheerful effect of benignity


When you know your position is one of the two or three in life most lacking in dignity


And your mouth is like a section of road that is being worked on


And it is cluttered up with stone crushers and concrete mixers and drills and steam rollers and there isn't a nerve on your head that aren't being irked on.


Oh some people are unfortunate to be worked on by thumbs,


And others have things done to their gums,


And your teeth are supposed to being polished


But you have reason to believe they are being demolished.


And the circumstances that adds to your terror


Is that it's all done with a mirror,


Because the dentist may be a bear, or as the Romans used to say, only they were referring to a feminine bear when they said it, an ursa,


But all the same how can you be sure when he takes his crowbar in one hand and mirror in the other he won't get mixed up, the way you do when try to tie a bow tie with the aid of a mirror, and forget that left is right and vice versa


And then at last he says, That will be all, but it isn't because he then coats your mouth from cellar to roof


With something I suspect is generally used to put shine a horse's hoof,


And you totter to your feet and think, Well it's over now and after all it was only this once,


And he says come back in three monce.


And this O Fate, is I think the most vicious that thou ever sentest,


That Man has to go continually to the dentist to keep his teeth in good condition


When the chief reason he wants his teeth to be in good condition is so that he won't have to go the dentist.

Answer 2

I got so frustrated the other day..I was trying to write a poem on my desktop computer,and those cats of mine chewed totally through the cord that goes from the keyboard to the USB in the back of the computer.Luckily,I was able to use my laptop before I forgot what I was going to say.Then just when I realized what I was going to write,I looked at the clock and discovered that I had to leave so that I could go to school and meet with the Jazz Ensemble that I am part of.Needless to say,the poem never was written.I decided that I would prevent this situation from happening again by sending my father out to go and buy a wireless keyboard and a wireless mouse....try not to get to frustrated,things will work themselves out.

Answer 3

are you sure it's Ogden Nash? I can't think of anything, and my search comes up with nothing like that

Answer 4

obviously nash.
It was about visiting a dentist.
U can find it in old NCERT class 10 english text.
Lots of exaggeration and personification i can remember,but not the name

Answer 5

It could also be by Richard Armour, who wrote similar stuff.

Answer 6

It is by Nash.

Title is "This is going to hurt a little bit"