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I'll read now a group of
poems from my new manuscript,

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a full heart.

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I'll start off with a fairly
light poem called Mae West.

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This is a poem of a
group I'm writing called

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going to school with the
stars and explores what

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we have to learn from each one.

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They're really TV poems.

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Mae West, she comes on
drenched in a perfume called

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self-satisfaction.

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From feather boa, from
feather boa, to silver pumps.

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She does not need
to be loved by you

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though she'll give you
credit for good taste.

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Just because you
say you love her,

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she's not throwing herself
at your feet in gratitude.

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Every other star
reveals how worthless

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she feels by crying when
the hero says he loves her.

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Or how unhoped for the approval
is when the audience applauds

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are big number.

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But Mae West takes
it as her due.

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She knows she's good.

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She expects the best
for herself and knows

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she's worth what she costs,
and she costs plenty.

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She's not giving anything away.

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She enjoys her admirers,
fat daddy, or muscle man,

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and doesn't confuse vanity and
sex, though she never turns

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down pleasure, lapping it up.

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Above all she enjoys herself,
swinging her body that says,

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me, me, me, me.

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Why not have a good time.

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As long as you amuse me go on.

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I like you slobbering
over my hand big boy.

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I have a right to.

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Most convincing, we know all
this not by her preaching it

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but by her presence.

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It's no act.

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Every word and look and
movement spells independence.

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She likes being herself,
and we who don't can only

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look on astonished.

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