Blackwater, Blackwater

deadline poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the October 15, 2007 edition of The Nation.

September 27, 2007

(The "Matchmaker" knockoff song in the new Iraq musical Gunslinger on the Roof)

Blackwater, Blackwater,
You can attack.
Spray them away.
Whack whom you'd whack.
Forget all the people whose lights you've put out,
'Cause you've got Republican clout.

So shoot them,
Stonewall the hassle.
Remember
That it's all authorized.
Don't worry: Government brass'll
Explain that our killing's been privatized.

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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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