<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:HelveticaNeue, Helvetica Neue, Helvetica, Arial, Lucida Grande, sans-serif;font-size:12px"><div><span>I'm looking for the origin or at least the author of a totally politically incorrect poem called "The Fat Old Lday" At least that is what my copy says that I found in a folder in a file drawer. This folder pre-dates my time here at the library so I have no idea where they got it from. The poem starts like this:</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Once there lived an old lady,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Who was extremely fat and
wide;</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>She loved to snack on junk food,</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>And she never walked outside.</span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><br><span></span></div><div style="color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 12px; font-family: HelveticaNeue,Helvetica Neue,Helvetica,Arial,Lucida Grande,sans-serif; background-color: transparent; font-style: normal;"><span>Does anyone know of this poem and it's origin or author? I tried
googling it and so far have not found anything. <br></span></div><div> </div><div><font size="2" color="#385376" face="comic sans ms">Lois Hartman <br>Watervliet District Library</font></div></div></body></html>