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Farewell, Steve Forbes

We mutter adieu now to Steve, Who finally decided to leave. We thought he might never be done With buying his place in the sun.

Calvin Trillin

February 16, 2000

We mutter adieu now to Steve, Who finally decided to leave. We thought he might never be done With buying his place in the sun.

So is there some lesson in why His gilt-edged campaign failed to fly? The theories that pundits now share Are nuanced, and full of hot air.

So now they can listen to mine: To paraphrase old Gertrude Stein, Though Forbes could give barrels of pork, A dork is a dork is a dork.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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