<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div><b>"Dropout Remorse" </b>by Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><span style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; font-style: inherit; margin: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline;">"So what was so bad about Walker?</span><br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Was Perry that god-awful slow?<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">And though Bobby Jindal<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Could see his polls dwindle,<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Just why did he give up and go? </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; border: 0px; margin: 0px auto 20px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; word-wrap: break-word; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Yes, once I disdained all these guys<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Whose leaving has left me bereft.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">So one wonders how<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">I long for them now.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">It’s something to do with who’s left.<font color="#111111" face="Mercury Display A, Mercury Display B"><span style="font-size: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;">"</span></font></span></p></div><div>---------------------------------<br><br><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Seeya 'round town, Moscow, because . . .</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"Moscow Cares" (the most fun you can have with your pants on)</span></div><div><a href="http://www.moscowcares.com/" style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><font color="#000000">http://www.MoscowCares.com</font></a></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"> </span></div><div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Tom Hansen</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">Moscow, Idaho</span></div></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">"There's room at the top they are telling you still.</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">But first you must learn how to smile as you kill,</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">If you want to be like the folks on the hill."</span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);"><br></span></div><div><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">- John Lennon</span></div></div></body></html>