Across our lives the Penguins saunter along: The Odyssey, The Ministry of Fear Parade’s End, Penrod, To a God Unknown Ragged with study, stained with tea and beer
Saint Augustine’s Confessions, Whitman’s Leaves Tennyson, Wordsworth, The Alexiad Monsignor Quixote, Wooster and Jeeves And Yevtushenko – he was quite the lad!
Dog-eared and all crinkly, Scotch-taped with age - Each Penguin is a wise, eternal sage