I am no nit-picker— please!,
but I’ll politely ask you to believe
in a recent Jewish Star issue
I saw: no — not a “tissue
of inconsequential lies,”
but an assumption [surprise!]
that ‘m’ can stand for a million.
But, contrary to what thou hast hinted,
we thousands [?] who protest what you printed.
Our hands on our hips,
[please read our lips],
thou sendeth thereby some false data.
And I’ll swear it at my cotillion.
[Let’s hear it for roman numerals: I, V, X, L, C, D, M, roughly.
Perhaps in Roman times, a thousand was enoughly.]
An ardent Jewish Star fan, humble-ex-proofreader, and erstwhile quasi-[queasy]-poet,
—Carol Rogovin
The errant M appeared in a headline in our July 14 edition. —Editor