Reasons to Celebrate
1. Wendy Cope is alive and well, which means she can continue to pen verses that get stuck in my head for weeks on end–verses like the following, which the boyfriend used to recite to me when we was a-courtin’ (I should have known something was up):
Higgledy-piggledy
Emily Dickinson
Liked to use dashes
Instead of full stops.
Nowadays, faced with such
Idiosyncrasy,
Critics and editors
Send for the cops.
2. It’s the feast day of St. Josaphat of Polotsk, who suffered a visually interesting martyrdom but was otherwise a dullard of a saint, brought down by nothing more sinister than bureaucracy–despite the intervention of some very noble Jews.
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