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Cheney, Speaking From Experience

Cheney maintains tough guys never run: They stick. Well, don't they, Dick?

Calvin Trillin

November 23, 2005

When shells fall close and smoke is thick, Real tough guys never run. They stick. Or so says Five Deferments Dick.

No wavering–no he’s a brick. To cut and run would make him sick. Or so says Five Deferments Dick.

Appeasers cannot take a lick, But tough guys bite and gouge and kick. Or so says Five Deferments Dick.

Calvin TrillinCalvin Trillin is The Nation’s “deadline poet.”


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