Report on the Search for WMDs...

Deadline Poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the June 23, 2003 edition of The Nation.

June 5, 2003

We can't yet find the nukes and gas,
Though we have looked in every section.
But we may find them in Iran--
And just before the next election.

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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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