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So what happened to
the last frontier?

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This is following that idea.

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This is poem number one from
A Coney Island of the Mind.

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Can you hear in the balcony?

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"In Goya's greatest
scenes we seem

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to see the people
of the world exactly

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at the moment when they first
attained the title of suffering

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humanity.

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They writhe upon on the page in
a veritable rage of adversity,

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heaped up, groaning
with babies and bayonets

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under cement skies in
an abstract landscape

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of blasted trees, bent
statues, bats, wings

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and beaks, slippery divots,
cadavers, and carnivorous cocks

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and all the final
hollering monsters

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of the imagination of disaster.

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They are so bloody real it is
as if they really still existed.

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And they do.

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Only the landscape is changed.

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They still are ranged
along the roads

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plagued by legionnaires,
false windmills,

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and demented roosters.

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They are the same people only
further from home on freeways

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50 lanes wide on a
concrete continent

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spaced with bland billboards
illustrating imbecile illusions

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of happiness.

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The scene shows fewer
tumbrils but more maimed

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citizens in painted
cars and they

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have strange license plates and
engines that devour America."

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[APPLAUSE]

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