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Enter Rick Perry

Calvin Trillin

August 24, 2011

With even more impressive hair than Kerry, At last into the race arrives Rick Perry. Though Perry’s blessed, no doubt, with splendid hair, he Believes some things that strike some folks as scary. Observers down in Texas still are wary. The space between his ears, they say, is airy. But for the pros who count which states he’d carry, What’s there beneath the hair is ancillary.

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


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