<html><head><meta http-equiv="content-type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body dir="auto"><div>"Iowa: Sweet Relief" by Calvin Trillin, Deadline Poet</div><div><br></div><div><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; 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;">The pollsters now have all moved on.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;"></span>And café patrons needn’t fear<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">A candidate just might barge in<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">To plead his case and smear a peer. </span></p><p style="box-sizing: border-box; margin: 0px auto 20px; word-wrap: break-word; border: 0px; outline: 0px; padding: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; line-height: 1.6; text-rendering: auto !important;"><span style="background-color: rgba(255, 255, 255, 0);">And now it’s safe to get the phone:<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">One needn’t fear a robocall.<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">The rest of us for four more years<br style="box-sizing: border-box;">Won’t be discussing ethanol.</span><span style="color: rgb(17, 17, 17); font-family: 'Mercury Display A', 'Mercury Display B'; font-size: 20px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: 100%;"> </span></p></div><div>--------------------------------<br><br><div><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></div></body></html>