New England Diary

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'Lake Wrong'

“Wrong is nothing and nowhere and takes

Its name from a great black bottomless lake,

The heart of which pranksters once marked with lipstick

On old newspaper nailed to a cane: “No Swimming.

Hunting or Fishing, Lake Wrong, Ha Ha Ha!’’

— From “Right and Wrong,’’ by Kenneth Rosen, a Portland, Maine, area poet and teacher