Endless rows of headstones fill the Fort Rosecrans National Cemetery in San Diego. (AP Photo / Lenny Ignelzi)
He was the very model of a neighborhood podiatrist. For he could find the bone spurs that these losers’ doctors always missed. So if your name was on the list of those he needed to assist, He’d swear those bone spurs did exist, and, if need be, throw in a cyst. He was the very model of a neighborhood podiatrist.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”