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I had a poem from Mayor
Daley, which I won't read.

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Only in passing just
read the quote that

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got me going into the poem.

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Daley said this, and didn't
stay around to correct himself.

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He was at a podium
such as this and we

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interviewed him and he said
"The police aren't there

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to create disorder.

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The police are there
to preserve disorder."

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[LAUGHTER]

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I put the inflection
on the word preserve

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but he said that in a monotone,
and didn't correct himself

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because he's so screwed
up linguistically.

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[LAUGHTER]

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It just comes out for a
verse, and he doesn't even

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catch it to make it sound
good for the audience.

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He's not clever enough
to catch it, to alter it.

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Spiro tries to alter it, but it
comes out the same falsehood.

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OK, enough of the politics.

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Now for the mythology.

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This is Don Quixote de la
Mancha and under that--

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"My armaments are armed.

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My pastime is in war."

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And I kind of changed and
altered history around

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so that Don Quixote
predates Jesus,

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so that he becomes the
mythological savior.

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And then he has to be followed--
the Second Coming would

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be Jesus.

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And instead of waiting now, as
we are for the Second Coming,

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Don Quixote was the first
and Jesus takes second place.

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"He, Don Quixote, he carries
strapped to his haunches

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a small flesh
parcel from his awl.

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Riding off on a skinny charger.

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Clothed in shagged
vestments of a knight.

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Followed by a fat
monkish friend.

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He is directed with caution
of third grade simplicity.

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Yet it is the
purity of the scene

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which strikes the eye, like
a chiseled medieval triptych.

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Resin dried in the brain, like
rain on a hot copper roof.

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The armor molded.

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The helmet is eaten
like a skeletons mouth.

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He called, his head beaten
and bloodied for food

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to sustain the
government of his gut.

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Lying beneath each
brown scab, a scab.

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But the mind goes
on without the arm.

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Colliding with
windmills, indentured

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sheep, the chamber pot
crown of mistaken errantry.

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Then the renounced fantasy.

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The signed will.

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A populist, clothed
in his spirit,

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picks over the
dream like old sores

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to await another second coming.

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Which detains us, and we again
contrive the most fitting day

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to ready the end.

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The animals summon the
page, and plant redemption

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in the social head."

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