The Corner

Ode to Nro

You mention poetry, you get poems.

Here’s a sonnet from a reader. It touched my heart… or possibly it was

my pancreas.

Ode to NRO

A joyful sight to me the NRO

Each morning as the Web to start my day

With reading Derb and beauteous K-LO

And Jonah boldly steps into the fray

Ledeen with wisdom and experience

Does comment on the workings of the State

And how it handles its Intelligence

A system he will often times berate

Brave Stuttaford and clever Ponnuru

With Myrna blithely make the columns shake

While Nordlinger with comments impromptu

Does cause my thoughts to tremble and to quake

These stalwarts write and still I cry for more

While all around me shout “Bush in ‘04!”

John Derbyshire — Mr. Derbyshire is a former contributing editor of National Review.
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