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Slobo in Prayer

Deadline Poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the May 24, 1999 edition of The Nation.

May 6, 1999

So Slobodan said prayers with Jesse.
But prayed for what? Who knows? I'd guess he
Would say, "So stop the bombs!" and then amens.
Except when bombs no longer shower
Our Slobodan might lose his power,
Unless he finds more ethnic groups to cleanse.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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