[Vision2020] The Rime of the Ancient Candidate

[lfalen]

Tom
Not bad. If you actually wrote that you should change professions.
Roger
-----Original message-----
From: Tom Hansen thansen at moscow.com
Date: Sat, 06 Sep 2008 13:46:32 -0700
To: vision2020 at moscow.com
Subject: [Vision2020] The Rime of the Ancient Candidate

> "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.
> 
> ----------------------------------------
> 
> 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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