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A Letter to Paul Wolfowitz on How His Departure From the World Bank Will Be Dealt With in His Obituary

Out, out, damned spot!

Calvin Trillin

May 24, 2007

The second paragraph will spell it out In chapter, Wolfie, and in sordid verse. Your lawyer worked in vain, and, by the way, The paragraph it follows will be worse.

That paragraph will be about the war For which you served as cocksure philosophe. It’s even harder there to claim clean hands, For graft stains fade, but blood just won’t come off.

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


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