[Vision2020] The Rime of the Ancient Candidate

Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Sat Sep 6 13:46:32 PDT 2008


"The Rime of the Ancient Candidate"
By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet

You'd know at once that I am not
Some liberal elitist.
I'm just a beer and burger guy
Who finds a cookout neatest.

Unlike Barack, I wouldn't eat
Arugula instead.
So what if I'm a little long
On spots to lay my head.

Houses, houses everywhere,
Not one of them a shack -
So many it's not strange I have
Some trouble keeping track.

Houses, houses everywhere -
Abodes in the amount
No short-term memory's involved
In failing to keep count.

To folks who fear they'll lose a home
As mortgage markets swerve,
I have some practical advice:
Keep six more in reserve.

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Seeya round town, Moscow.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"We're a town of about 23,000 with 10,000 college students. The college 
students are not very active in local elections (thank goodness!)."

- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)


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