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OK, that's it for the Old West.

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Earlier today, I
visited a class.

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And they asked me what
my favorite word was.

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And I told them-- the
first word I came up

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with-- well, a phrase
was, "buck none,"

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so I thought I had to read it.

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Buck none means
bachelor cowboy, or I

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said in class, a cowboy
who can't get laid.

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So I'm going to move on
to Shangdu my artful boom

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town, which is an invented
city sort of based

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on industrial cities in China.

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"Aubade" I long for
harmine morning.

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To lift me from my
hisshurled life.

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But my hellwhelmed county
of hard-scruffed crops

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is marooned.

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My plow, a beached whale's brow
bone on morose miles of mooor.

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Heft, heft, I cried my ox.

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But no hint of green wort,
just midges to torment my ox.

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You in tone forgo lament,
willingly forfeit the ai-ai

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so I slaughter my ox.

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So hi, hi.

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I am ready in my plaidwhelmed
puff-puff golf hat,

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ready to be whelmed by a pet
store cacophony of crickets

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shirruping in their
cage balls, juddering

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slam of hammering jack, humming
susurrations of catamarans,

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aerosol striations of
welder's firecracks,

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then a caracas of fist cracks

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after workers slurp
off their goggled specs

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to a bassooning
foghorn, hooning,

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so spooning lovers know when
to return to their dawn shift,

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tuning symbols for
toy baboons who clap,

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clap Hail the industrial age.

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Hail."

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