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If I Knew You Were Coming, I’d’ve Baked a Cake

Calvin Trillin

April 7, 2016

(North Carolina Wedding-Cake Bakers’ Version)


If I know that you’re gay, I will not bake a cake, Bake a cake, bake a cake. ’Cause I’m staying true to Jesus—that I won’t forsake. So vamoose! Just get out of my sight! If I know that you’re gay, then you’re not welcome here. Disappear, disappear. ’Cause you violate the teachings that I hold so dear. I can say take a hike. It’s my right.

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


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