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Russian nonsense poets include Daniil Kharms and Aleksey Konstantinovich Tolstoy, particularly his work under the pseudonym Kozma Prutkov, and some French exponents are Charles Cros and Robert Desnos. The best-known Dutch Nonsense poet is Cees Buddingh'.

Among German writers, Christian Morgenstern and Ringelnatz are the best-known ones, and both still popular. Robert Gernhardt is a contemporary one. Morgenstern's Nasobēm is an imaginary being, though less frightful than the Jabberwock:

OriginalTranslation

Auf seinen Nasen schreitet
einher das Nasobēm,
von seinem Kind begleitet.
Es steht noch nicht im Brehm.
Es steht noch nicht im Meyer.
Und auch im Brockhaus nicht.
Es trat aus meiner Leyer
zum ersten Mal ans Licht.
Auf seinen Nasen schreitet
(wie schon gesagt) seitdem,
von seinem Kind begleitet,
einher das Nasobēm.

Upon its noses strideth
Forward the Noseybum,
With it its child abideth.
It's not yet found in Brehm.
It's not yet found in Meyer.
Nor in the Brockhaus she.
It trotted from my lyre,
As first it came to be.
Upon its noses strideth
(As said before) since then,
With it its child abideth,
Forward the Noseybum.

F.W. Bernstein's observation that

Die schärfsten Kritiker der Elche The sharpest critics of the elks
waren früher selber welche used to be ones themselves

has become practically a proverb in German. While strictly speaking nonsense (elk have no critics), it nonetheless expresses the truth that often the most strident opponents of an ideology are its former adherents. On the cult show "Max Headroom", Edison Carter once made a similar observation: "Converts are the worst bigots."

One contemporary example of nonsense verse is Vogon poetry, found in Douglas Adams's The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy.

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