What a Day
From our UK edition
The blue sky is Sunni. The white clouds are Shia. The sun is happy. The shops are crowded. The planet is healthy. The oceans are healthy. The oceans have recovered. The economy has recovered. Long ago, when I could sleep the night through Without having to get up to pee, I’d wake at a very early hour in the French countryside, In my bed in New York, with sweet birds singing oui-oui. Those days of having a car in the city And looking for places to park, And drinking martinis at lunch, When New York was a lark Of drink and anger and glamour, Are gone now—and New York is so much better! And, incredibly, nothing has got worse!