Description: Penelope Mackie
poetry (4334) philosophy (1759)
Welcome to Penelope Mackie’s web site. It is new, so here is Ogden Nash’s “Kind of an Ode to Duty” to entertain you until more content can be added.
O Duty, Why hast thou not the visage of a sweetie or a cutie? Why glitter thy spectacles so ominously? Why art thou clad so abominously? Why art thou so different from Venus And why do thou and I have so few interests mutually in common between us? Why art thou fifty per cent martyr And fifty-one per cent Tartar?
Why is it thy unfortunate wont To try to attract people by calling on them either to leave undone the deeds they like, or to do the deeds they don’t? Why are thou so like an April post-mortem On something that died in the ortumn? Above all, why dost thou continue to hound me? Why art thou always albatrossly hanging around me?