Political poetry fun

Right before the November election, National Public Radio broadcast two political poets, Calvin Trillin and James Bowman, who read their rhymes before and after the various political conventions and debates took place. We just received Trillin's new volume, Oblivioiusly On He Sails: The Bush Administration in Rhyme (811 T734o):



Here's a sample:

A Word to George Bush, On the Occasion of His Mentioning That Iraq Was Not Responsible For the Attacks on 9/11

You tell us, with a casual by-the-way,
Iraq was not behind that awful day,
As if we'd never heard your staff and you
Implying just the opposite was true.
The Web must say, or maybe Lexis-Nexis,
If chutzpa is a word they use in Texas.

-- October 13, 2003