Deadline Poet
A Short History of Someone Who Failed to Get Into the Champagne Unit of the Texas Air National Guard in 1968
I wasn't really for the war.
But all my kin, in wars before,
Had gone when called. I couldn't flee.
No, Canada was not for me.
Another thing that I was not
About the Author
Calvin Trillin
Calvin Trillin, the author of Random House's Deciding the Next Decider: The 2008 Presidential Election in Rhyme,...
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