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Dropout Remorse

Calvin Trillin

December 3, 2015

Former Republican presidential candidate Rick Perry (AP Photo/Eric Gay)

So what was so bad about Walker? Was Perry that god-awful slow? And though Bobby Jindal Could see his polls dwindle, Just why did he give up and go?

Yes, once I disdained all these guys Whose leaving has left me bereft. So one wonders how I long for them now. It’s something to do with who’s left.

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


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