[Vision2020] "Mitt Romney's Tax Returns" (Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet)

[Tom Hansen]

"Mitt Romney's Tax Returns"

By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet

"Demands come from left and from right.
Mitt Romney, though, says he’ll sit tight.
We’ve given you people enough,
Says Ann, sounding suddenly tough.
Conspiracy theories abound.
Mitt’s critics relentlessly pound.
Why go through this sort of ordeal?
What doesn’t Mitt want to reveal?
  
Some shelters far off from our shore?
Well, sure, but there has to be more.
And, really, we already know
His tax rate is terribly low.
Could some corporate losses have meant
That one year he paid not a cent?
What’s in there to make voters squeal?
What doesn’t Mitt want to reveal?
  
What deed was so sleazy that he’ll
So desperately try to conceal
Exposure with such stubborn zeal?
What fiddling did Romney feel 
Showed even a wealthy big wheel
Who feels some gray area’s appeal
Is slippery, just like an eel?
What doesn’t Mitt want to reveal?"

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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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