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We Could Have Danced All Night

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By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the February 14, 2005 edition of The Nation.

January 27, 2005

(The Bushes Do "My Fair Lady" at the Inaugural Balls)

We could have danced all night,
We could have danced all night,
And still had fat cats who
We hadn't thanked at all
For backing us last fall,
Though soon, we're sure, they'll get their due.
There're those who'd say to dance this way is tasteless
While we lose soldiers day and night.
But no one here would know a fallen GI Joe.
So we can dance, dance, dance all night.

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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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