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Oh, yeah.

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So this is a poem about money.

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We were talking yesterday
a lot about politics

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and social life and the
culture that we live in.

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I was thinking how
important it is not

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to think that you
are outside of all

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that but to understand how much
a part of it all of you are.

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I am.

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Let me speak personally.

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This poem's called "The Same
Bourgeois Magic Wherever

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the Mail Train Sets You Down."

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It's a line from
a poem by Rimbaud.

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"It's nice-- money.

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Don't tell me it isn't.

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To have it, to know that you
have it and can get more--

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it's the same for all of us.

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I'm no exception.

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And this is not about
psychosocial critiques,

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chaste non-attachment,
notions that money

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is a tamed slavery and chase
to touch an elusive amnesia.

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You don't like to shove a
hand in your pants pocket

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and feel the cash there?

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Well-laundered, no doubt.

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Don't tell me that a
billfold in a dark pocket

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takes the shape of a trapdoor.

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Or that when tendered too freely
the face on every ten dollar

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bill, Alexander Hamilton, the
cabalist and duel fighter,

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look sorrier than
the skulls that

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were strapped with
thongs of greased leather

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to the prows of
Viking longboats.

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Money is important.

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Don't say people are troubled
by matter forever, really.

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Don't go on about how
after the first funeral,

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there seems to be only
unfinishedness for all

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those aquaculture engineers,
Panamanian waitresses,

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and bail bondsmen.

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So many mail trains
never to arrive

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because of the foaming action
in a failed immune system.

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Everyone feels that.

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Everyone understands that
somewhere, a boy of 14

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is out riding his bike,
wheeling around his friends,

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shouting, hey!

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Know what?

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I got expelled, you know.

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I just got expelled."

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I actually did hear--

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I mean, that is not
something invented.

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That is something that
I heard on that street

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that I walked down
to get my daughter.

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