21 June 2023 – Walking along, minding my business on this our longest day of the year and — right there on the wall — I see a duck.

So I think of Ogden Nash.

Of course I do.

Ogden Nash (1902-1971), American humorist and the author — among other pithy observations — of this description of the duck.

Behold the duck / It does not cluck /

A cluck it lacks / It quacks./

It is specially fond / Of a puddle or pond. /

When it dives or sups / It bottoms ups.

All of which brings to mind his even pithier discourse on the turtle.

And leads one to muse on the secret truths of rhymed unreason.

Of course it does!