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But there's one other, which
is sort of historical now.

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It's called "Crew Cuts,"
and in about 1965,

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before there was much of a
women's liberation movement

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and when there were
still a lot of crew cuts,

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I formed this syndrome
of the hairstyle,

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as certain political
and sexual opinions.

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And now it's a very
dated, of course.

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It manages to look,
at the same time,

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archaic and
fashionable, terrible.

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But anyway, I want
to read it, but I

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have to tell that first so
you really love it, you know?

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So you'll know it,
I was there first.

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The crew cuts, I mostly
met these guys in airports.

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Because I'd be traveling
around doing poetry readings

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in the winter and I'd get
stuck for a couple of hours

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and I'd see all these guys.

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And the crew cut was a
guy, I mean not everybody,

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but a crew cut was a crew cut.

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The crew cut was a guy
who walked like this.

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[CROWD LAUGHING]

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He was sort of saying all
the time, I'm not a girl,

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I'm not a girl!

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And who said he was?

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I think I know who said he was.

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But me, I didn't say it.

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Men with crew cuts are
impossible, like ice shows.

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In airport bars, all winter,
holding standby tickets,

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they wait for a plane
into the next territory

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and confess to puzzlement
over the Oriental mind.

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Later, they want to drop
eggs on the Russians.

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Later, they want to keep
violence out of the streets

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by installing a machine
gun nest on every corner.

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When they talk about
women, they are

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discussing a subjugated race
rumored to have cached away

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huge quantities of ammunition.

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They lounge on the porch
of the Planters Club

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in Southern Rhodesia, pith
helmets over their crew cuts,

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drinking pink gins,
and laughing at jokes

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about the stupid natives while
the tom-tom's start to beat

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in a million kitchens.

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You missed that.

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While the tom-tom's start
to beat in a million

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kitchens, and the sky lightens
with a storm of Russians

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with hair down to
their shoulders,

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as inscrutable as Chinese
and as merciless as women.

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