A Summary of Two Weeks in the Life of Mayor Rudolph Giuliani

Deadline Poet

By Calvin Trillin

This article appeared in the June 12, 2000 edition of The Nation.

May 25, 2000

The health news really walloped Rudy.
He dissed his wife, and in that mood he
Went strolling with his good friend Judi--
And found himself in deepest doodie.

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About Calvin Trillin

Calvin Trillin is The Nation's "deadline poet." He has been a staff writer for The New Yorker since 1963 and has written the syndicated weekly column "Uncivil Liberties" since 1986. He has authored many, many books, including Tepper's Not Going Out and Deadline Poet: My Life as a Doggerelist. more...
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