Scott Walker said that he was just a bloke Who, knowing that his state was going broke, Saw saving measures that he must invoke. But then, when he obsequiously spoke To someone who he thought was David Koch (It wasn’t Koch; a guy had played a joke), The phone pals made it clear they’d like to choke Off unions’ rights, and saw this as the stroke— A stroke disguised within a budget cloak— To start the unions’ going up in smoke. No surprise there.
Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”