“Fix it.”
    “It’s a ransom note; I don’t care about grammar!”
    “There is no excuse for bad grammar,” you say steadily, pointing to the space where a period should be but isn’t. “Fix it.”
    Ben draws a dot next to the sentence. “Happy?”
    You read it over.

    Dear, dear Anita,
    We love you. That should be cleared up right now. You’re a good person. Maybe toogood. So good that you might...

“Fix it.”
    “It’s a ransom note; I don’t care about grammar!”
    “There is no excuse for bad grammar,” you say steadily, pointing to the space where a period should be but isn’t. “Fix it.”
    Ben draws a dot next to the sentence. “Happy?”
    You read it over.

    Dear, dear Anita,
    We love you. That should be cleared up right now. You’re a good person. Maybe too good. So good that you might...

this is the hour
in which the witches come to watch
the twitching of the ticking clock
the wishing of the children
double, double,
toil and trouble
fire burn and cauldron bubble
toil and trouble
double, double,
the wishing of the children
the twitching of the ticking clock
in which the witches come to watch
this is the hour