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Number two, from A Coney
Island of the Mind.

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"Sailing through the
Straits of Demos,

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we saw symbolic birds
shrieking over us,

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while eager eagles hovered,
and elephants in bathtubs

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floated past us out to sea,
strumming bent mandolins

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and bailing for old
glory with their ears,

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while patriotic maidens
wearing paper poppies

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and eating bonbons ran along
the shores wailing after us.

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And while we lashed
ourselves to masts,

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and stopped our ears
with chewing gum,

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dying donkeys on high heels
sang love songs, and gay cows

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flew away, chanting Athenaeum
anthems, as their pods turned

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to tulips and helicopters
from Helios flew over us,

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dropping free railway tickets
from Lost Angeles to heaven,

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and promising free
elections, so that--

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[LAUGHTER]

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[APPLAUSE]

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--so that we set up--

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[LAUGHTER]

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--So that we set up mast
and sail on that swart ship

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once more.

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And so set forth
once more, force

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upon the Gobble sea, loaded
with liberated Vestal Virgins

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and discuss throwers
reading Walden.

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[LAUGHTER]

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But shortly after reaching
the strange suburban shores

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of that great American
demi-democracy,

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looked at each other
with a mild surprise,

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silent upon a peak in Darien."

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[APPLAUSE]

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Darien, Connecticut.

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[LAUGHTER]