Ode To The Pre-Emptive Grievance

I didn't get a chance to listen to much of the poem debuted at the inauguration yesterday, but couldn't miss the hub bub leading up to it that surrounded its author and its writing.

This review of it, however, makes me want to go back check it out.

A highlight:

I had the intention to pick out for your delectation whichever phrase or sentence made the least sense, but boy, it was a crowded field. This one must surely be up there:

love with no need to pre-empt grievance

That's as close to meaningless as you can get without replacing each letter by the one that follows it in the alphabet (which gets you: "mpwf xjui op offe up qsf-fnqu hsjfwbodf").