A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics

A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics

A Suggestion as America Begins Preparations for The Next Olympics

We might provoke less violent demonstrations
If we invaded slightly fewer nations.

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We might provoke less violent demonstrations
If we invaded slightly fewer nations.

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


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