"Dear Jodi (you know all this, but thought you’d like to see the letter I am sending),

Ogden Nash once wrote:

I find it very difficult to enthuse
Over the current news.
Just when you think that at least the outlook is so black that it can grow no blacker, it worsens,
And that is why I do not like the news, because there has never been an era when so many things were going so right for so many of the wrong persons.

This poem wants me to adjust my Fedora, stick a press card in the crown, and shout out, “Give me rewrite!”

Rewrite Nash?

Yes, I agree with him that it’s difficult to enthuse over the current news. But this is not an era going so right for so many of the wrong persons. The idea should be flipped: Much is going wrong for the right persons; we’re in this mess together."

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Jodi Rave: A letter from Mark Trahant (BuffaloPost.Net 3/4)