Family Values Agenda

deadline poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the September 24, 2007 edition of The Nation.

September 6, 2007

Republicans are not complex.
Their interests are quite simple: sex.
Take Newt and Rudy. They have drives
For sex with those who aren't their wives.
For them adultery's just dandy.
(Republicans are always randy.)
Those Foley e-mails! He enjoys
Some pinch and tickle with young boys.
There's Vitter keeping girls on call
And Craig tap-tapping in a stall.
They like it smooth, they like it rough.
Republicans can't get enough.

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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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