FTFY

Over at The Nation, Calvin Trillin has attempted to put the arguments of Polanski's defenders into verse form, and (presumably accidentally) misses sonnet form by an astonishingly small margin. A slight rearrangement:

And should Polanski be arrested
For youthful errors? Yes, perhaps.
But spare him jail, as you've suggested,
For he's been punished for this lapse--
For decades exiled from LA,
He'll miss the movers and the shakers.
He knows, as he wakes up each day,
He'll never get to see the Lakers.
For just one old and small mischance,
He's suffered slurs and other stuff.
He has to live in Paris, France.
Has he not suffered quite enough?
How can these people get so riled?
He only raped a single child.