Saturday, November 15, 2014

Today's Deadline Poem Is Short'n Sweet: An ISIS Couplet

Lengthy poems may be epick [archaic], but a pithy couplet may do the trick. Or, something like that. If this is (fair & balanced) wordplay, so be it.

[x The Nation]
Obstacles Limit Targets And Pace Of Strikes On ISIS
By The Deadline Poet (Calvin Trillin)

Tag Cloud of the following piece of writing

created at TagCrowd.com

No others match the weapons we are using.
But whom to use them on can get confusing. Ω

[Calvin Trillin began his career as a writer for Time magazine. Since July 2, 1990, as a columnist at The Nation, Trillin has written his weekly "Deadline Poet" column: humorous poems about current events. Trillin has written considerably more pieces for The Nation than any other single person. A native of Kansas City, MO, Trillin received his BA from Yale College in 1957. He served in the army, and then joined Time.]

Copyright © 2014 The Nation



Creative Commons License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Copyright © 2014 Sapper's (Fair & Balanced) Rants & Raves