I published this on Google Plus some time ago, but I thought I should also post it here. The current ascendency of the egregious Newt Gingrich, now supposedly the front-runner for the Republican nomination, brings me back to the time when he was Speaker of the House. At the time I was making heavy use of an anagram-generating program, and it turned out that there were better anagrams for “Newton Leroy Gingrich” (his full legal name) than for nearly any other name or phrase I tried out. This inspired me to write a poem, founded in the Oulipo-style rule that every line had to be an anagram of Newt’s full name:<\/p>\n
We’re crooning nightly,
\nRenewing thorny logic,
\nCheerily noting wrong.
\nCoiling energy, thrown.<\/p>\n
Wrongly enticing hero,
\nOngoing wintry lecher,
\nReigning theory clown,
\nWhining electron orgy
\nGrowing incoherently.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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