[Vision2020] "Newt's Surge" By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet

[Tom Hansen]

"Newt’s Surge"
By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet

The pundits all can confidently speak
Of Gingrich as the flavor of the week.
The people who want anyone but Mitt
Now say, in desperation, Newt is it.
Yes, Newt’s astute—a crafty wheeler-dealer.
His baggage, though, would fill an eighteenwheeler—

Affairs and ethics problems and, to boot,
His mouth is something often off he’ll shoot.
And if he’s scratched because he lacks decorum?
What happens then? Get ready, Rick Santorum.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho

"We could have, at the least, two hundred years of water left."

- Wayne Krauss (October 17, 2007)