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Blackwater, Blackwater

No one keeps track--so let's take a crack.

Calvin Trillin

December 16, 2009

(Sung by the CIA Chorus to the tune of “Matchmaker, Matchmaker”)

Blackwater Guards Tied to Secret Raids by C.I.A.       –headline in the New York Times

Blackwater, Blackwater, You’ve got the knack. Let’s snatch and grab All through Iraq. Blackwater, Blackwater, Earn lots of jack By joining us in the attack.

Reports we simply can fake up. Who cares for the laws we may flout? The rules are our rules to make up, So some dirty business is contracted out.

Blackwater, Blackwater, No one keeps track. Let’s snatch and grab. Let’s take a crack. Blackwater, Blackwater, Smack bad guys back In ops that are Blackwater black.

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


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