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So I'm going to read some poems
from Dance Dance Revolution.

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And there's a tour guide who
speaks in an invented Creole,

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and there is a city, and the
city is called The Desert.

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Looking back, I don't know why--

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I was like, that's sort
of an unimaginative name.

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Why didn't I think of
something more creative?

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But anyway, it's called
it's called The Desert,

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and it's sort of like Vegas,
where the hotels are modeled

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after cities around the world.

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And the guide is the guide
of the St. Petersburg Hotel.

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And she's a South Korean--

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she used to be a South
Korean dissident.

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I always start with
this poem, "Roles."

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And I've been trying to
start somewhere else,

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like somewhere random.

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I just can't do it.

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Someday-- someday, I will.

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"Roles."

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Oh, and there's a
historian, and she's

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giving a tour through the St.
Petersburg hotel right now.

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"

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"Roles."

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Opal o opus.

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Behole, neon hibiscus
bloom beacons!

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'Tan lotion Tanya' billboard.

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She, your lucent Virgil, den
I's taka ova as talky Virgil--

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want some tea?

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Some pelehuu?

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Mine vocation, your vacation.

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I tren my talk box to talk
yep-pu-- as you Merrikkens say,

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'purdy.'

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No goods, only phrases.

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Betta de phrase,
'purdier' de experience.

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Twenty t'ousand guides
here, but I'm #1.

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Once, Helsinkian arrive and
'I say, I guide, I guide.'

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But Helsinkian yap,
'No, too many guides!'

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And I sleep outside
'im door, im wake.

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I say calmly, 'I guide.'

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The Helsinkian say, 'Goddammunt,
ja, okay, guide me!'

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A million light bulbs
in Desert wit cleanest

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latrines and our strobelit
lobbies since Desert non sin.

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Each hotel De
McCosm of any city--

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Bangkok over here,
Paree over there.

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I speak sum Han-guk y Finnish,
good bit o' Latin, y Spanish,

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sum toto Desert Creole,
an ever-changing dipdong

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'pendable on my mood.

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Menny 'Merikken dumplings
unhinge dim talk holes,

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y ejaculate, oooh,
y hot-diggity,

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dis is the shee-it.

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But gut rupping
done erect Polis,

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we exploit gaggle of aborigini
to back tundra country

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Benite banditas.

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But better to scrape that fact
under history rug, so shh--

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ow-- O tempora, O mores!

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I usta move around like
Innuit looking for sea pelt.

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Now, I'm a double migrant.

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Ceded from Coreo,
ceded from 'Merikka,

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ceded y ceded till I seizem
dis sizable Mouthpiece role.

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Now les' drive to interior.

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