A Sestina Explanation of the Valerie Plame Affair. BY MICHAEL DE LEEUW - - - -  Valerie yearned to be a spy  She hid her name, she hid her Plame  She dined on foreign meat and cake  In alleys dark she learned to rove  She longed to kiss another's lips  Though such lips are oft mistrusted  Drunk, she danced as if she trusted  Joe Wilson, who was not a spy  These vows were passed between their lips:   Forever Wilson, no more Plame  Our hearts, they shall no longer rove  Till death, I do, now cut the cake  Ambassador Wilson ate cake  He gazed upon the wife he trusted  He lost his job when old Karl Rove  Got Bush elected, though no spy  Would lose her job, not even Plame  Secrets would still pass through her lips  Her husband's name passed through her lips  To look into the yellowcake  The CIA through Ms. née Plame  Needed someone whom they trusted  To act almost as if a spy  To Niger he would need to rove  Great anger spewed from Mr. Rove  When 16 words passed Bush's lips  Not true, said Wilson, I espy  Iraq did not seek yellowcake  Forgeries cannot be trusted   So Rove then outed poor Ms. Plame  Novak published the name of Plame  The name he clearly got from Rove  Laws seem broken, Rove mistrusted  A reporter jailed for her locked lips  All because Rove just wants his cake  And eats it too as you can spy  The punishment for Rove's loose lips  Will be a trusted slice of cake  But not for Plame the former spy    MORE SESTINAS

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