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"'Eleodes Armata.'

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Where to begin with
you, pinacatte beetle,

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the signature
headstand you strike

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to spray noxious
fluid in self-defense,

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your femoral spines,
sensitive antennae,

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or the hollows beneath wings
you do not use, for you prefer

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to stroll the desert
keep low near rotting

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fruit and leaves and seeds the
ants discarded in their dump

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sites

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Perhaps your treatment in film
deserves mention how you're fit

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to be spat on fit to be squashed
by the likes of Clint Eastwood

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and Gian Maria Volanté, whose
fist collapsed your exoskeleton

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as Mortimer's round would crush
his chest in the final showdown

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of For A Few Dollars More

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You deserve an Oscar best
supporting role along

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with the velvet
mesquite and palo verde

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from which this nation
hung its founding myths--

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tough, pretty whores
the red man who

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captures them the noble
cowboy meting out justice

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Here lies our Western
manifesto destined

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to find the level
of your mandible,

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an outlaw history kicking,
jerking at the end of a rope

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its windpipe crushed
by its own weight

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Pinacate, together
with your cousins,

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the fungus beetle the root borer
you return the lynching tree

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to the land you love
to walk and feed

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upon, your kind
makes up one-third

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of all animal life on Earth

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My God.

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There you go, ambling
past saguaros like a 57

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Chevy on the main drag,

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[LAUGHTER]

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John Wayne's got nothing
on your true grit,

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you know when to hole
up wait out the heat

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when to point your thorax
at an unwelcome guest

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and fire the six-gun

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[LAUGHS]

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They call you
stinkbug, darkling,

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but we are extras
in your mythology,

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when empty strip malls
bear witness to the limits

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of our collective sight
you and your kith will be

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our demolition team, you
undertake with quiet confidence

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tear down through countless
generations what cannot last,

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plant eggs in arid soil
unhurried as you prepare

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the ground for your beginnings.

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[APPLAUSE]

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