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A little bit more serious.

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OK, so this is going back
to Korea, where she was--

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it goes back into her life
story of her growing up

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in this poor southern
region of South Korea

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during a series of dictatorships
in the '60s and the '70s.

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And this is about
when she was born.

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"Song that Breaks
the World Record"

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"I was born in
first day o' unrest.

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Huzzah!

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The students who fight
in police boy patos.

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In gangrene smoke,
youngins true, butane colas

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chanted poor ole cantaka
Rhee to step down.

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He did, chased out on a
perma-holiday, Hawaii him Elba.

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Fizzy ale spill in streets.

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Korea celebrating.

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No money for balloon swine
y ticker tape parade,

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but Koreans have unabashed
national succotash.

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Whole country batty drunk,
aroused like a itchy Veegra

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man.

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All but my mother, mater, Alore.

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Drunk medics swished
out clinics to celebre,

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so she allim she self alone in
hospital, yowling from labor.

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But expert she is.

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Bore ten chilluns whom all
die before reachum age one.

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Her heart, a grave o'
infants, me tragic mum.

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Breathes, she pansori's breath
like fire breathe accordion.

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Pop me out.

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Me yell.

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Father hid home, hiding from
froth of birth's labor y labor

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o revolution.

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I'se boomerang out, slipshod
on to blood tile floor,

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a squalling bile newborn.

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So happy, she rasp
songs (WHISPERING)

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sotto voce after I's born.

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See, she voce so famous,
a fable of myths, even

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now samsy you can buy her CD
in the world muzak section.

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No pullem you leg.

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She singsong longest song ever,
singing rasping raus pain.

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Mind the gap, by the way.

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Hocking, coughing, with one beat
till husking one note, con ko

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bell, she like a bayou wailer.

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In stubbled field, etched
by winter's acid light,

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she retch her notes.

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Y specter's wall of
sound chilled a tympanum

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o all the saram pause
listen and cry, cry.

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You cry for being
a cursed Korean.

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Singing while carrying
me bundle home

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till I's a week old before
she collapsed to she death.

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She hum her last notes.

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A martyr spun nettle
out of silk-shorn dress,

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a lice laced boot to my
heart, in Angyang, I rest."

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