Poem of the Day - Part 46

 What's the Use?
by Ogden Nash (1940)

          Sure, deck your lower limbs in pants,
          Yours are the limbs, my sweeting.

(Above: ballet dancer David Halberg as the prince in Tchaikovsky's Sleeping Beauty)

          You look divine as you advance –

          Have you seen yourself retreating?

(Above: Rear view of David Halberg.  I guess there's something to be said for those ballet tights.)