"I would live all my life in nonchalance and insouciance
Were it not for making a living, which is rather a nouciance"

Ogden Nash had tried to make a living teaching, selling bonds, and writing ad copy. But after he sent some satirical lines to The New Yorker, the magazine offered him a job. Nash’s verse debuted there in 1930, the start of a long career of humor and wordplay. His earliest published poems, including the couplet above, join the public domain in 29 days. #PublicDomainDayCountdown