You can't possibly mean we have to do this again ?

 Ah, you were in Iowa last night.

 There's no need to deny it, for

 one can sort of tell - and if we

 haven't gone there, ourself, per- 

 haps we ought to.

 But, yes, to go through that mode

 of election - with all those con-

 testants around, tugging at us in

 one direction or another - is a

 trial not to be revisited anytime

 soon. To have to learn that none

 of this ever registered at all,

 never was measured or counted or

 lasted, and left no trace behind -

 please, don't say it.

 Mother always warned about Iowa,

 and now one can certainly see why. 

 What's hardest to endure, indeed,

 is the thought that she might ev-

 er have heard of it. No wave was

 ever meant to be of grain.