<html><body bgcolor="#FFFFFF"><div><span></span><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-family: arial, helvetica, sans-serif; -webkit-tap-highlight-color: rgba(26, 26, 26, 0.296875); -webkit-composition-fill-color: rgba(175, 192, 227, 0.230469); -webkit-composition-frame-color: rgba(77, 128, 180, 0.230469); font-size: 10px; line-height: 12px; "><h2 property="dc:title" style="margin-top: 10px; margin-right: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px; margin-left: 0px; padding-top: 0px; padding-right: 0px; padding-bottom: 0px; padding-left: 0px; color: rgb(29, 29, 29); font-size: 24px; clear: both; font-weight: normal; ">"Mitt Romney's Tax Returns"</h2><div><br></div><div>By Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</div></span><span></span><br><span>"Demands come from left and from right.</span><br><span>Mitt Romney, though, says he’ll sit tight.</span><br><span>We’ve given you people enough,</span><br><span>Says Ann, sounding suddenly tough.</span><br><span>Conspiracy theories abound.</span><br><span>Mitt’s critics relentlessly pound.</span><br><span>Why go through this sort of ordeal?</span><br><span>What doesn’t Mitt want to reveal?</span><br><span> </span><br><span>Some shelters far off from our shore?</span><br><span>Well, sure, but there has to be more.</span><br><span>And, really, we already know</span><br><span>His tax rate is terribly low.</span><br><span>Could some corporate losses have meant</span><br><span>That one year he paid not a cent?</span><br><span>What’s in there to make voters squeal?</span><br><span>What doesn’t Mitt want to reveal?</span><br><span> </span><br><span>What deed was so sleazy that he’ll</span><br><span>So desperately try to conceal</span><br><span>Exposure with such stubborn zeal?</span><br><span>What fiddling did Romney feel </span><br><span>Showed even a wealthy big wheel</span><br><span>Who feels some gray area’s appeal</span><br><span>Is slippery, just like an eel?</span><br><span>What doesn’t Mitt want to reveal?"</span><br><span></span><br><span>-----------------------------------</span><br><span></span><br><span>Seeya round town, Moscow.</span><br><span></span><br><span>Tom Hansen</span><br><span>Moscow, Idaho</span><br><span></span><br><span>"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!)."</span><br><span></span><br><span>- Dale Courtney (March 28, 2007)</span><br><span></span></div></body></html>