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Orange Alerts

You know the things I miss so much it hurts? Those orange alerts. Routines, our leaders said--and this was strange-- Should not be changed:

Calvin Trillin

March 24, 2005

You know the things I miss so much it hurts? Those orange alerts. Routines, our leaders said–and this was strange– Should not be changed: If we stayed home, or stopped what we’d begun, The bad guys won. No, we were only told to be prepared For being scared. And when will it return–this orange protection? The next election.

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


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