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Here's a lighter poem
on the same subject.

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Light, because I call
adultery a crime.

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It's far from a crime in
our culture so it's not.

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"Adultery"

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"What do a few crimes
matter in a good life?

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Adultery is not so bad.

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You think yourself too old
for loving, gone in the guts

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and charms, but a woman says,
"I love you," a drunken lie,

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and down you go on the grass
outside the cocktail party.

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You rejoin the wife,
delighted, renewed!

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She's grateful but goes
out with a bruiser.

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Blood passions arise and
die in lawyers' smiles,

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a few children suffer
for life, but that's all.

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But: One memo from
McNamara and his band

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can kill a city of lives and the
life of cities, too, while L.B.

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"Killer" Johnson And His Napalm
Boys sit singing by their fire:

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The Goldberg Variations.

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So, what do a few crimes
matter in a neutral life?

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They pray the insignificance
of most private behavior."

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