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Well-- [CHUCKLES] Well, well.

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To explain myself, to
explain these salty ways,

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I go back to an old
poem, "I Knew I'd Sing".

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This is just the confession
that attends the dirty mouth

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you've already sensed was, if
not latent, express already.

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"I Knew I'd Sing".

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"A few sashay, a few finagle"--

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you gotta love the words,
whatever else is going on.

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"A few sashay, a few finagle.

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Some make whoopee,
some make good.

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But most make diddly-squat.

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I tell you this is what
I love about America,

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the words it puts in my mouth,
the mouth where once my mother

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rubbed a word away with soap.

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The word was cunt.

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She stuck that
bar of family-size

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in there until there was no
hole to speak of, so she hoped.

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But still I'm full of it,
the cunt, the prick, short u,

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short i, the words that
stood for her and him.

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I loved the thing they must have
done, the love they must have

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made, to make an example of me.

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After my lunch of Ivory, I
said vagina for a day or two,

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but knew from that day forth
which word struck home like sex

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itself.

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I knew when I was big I'd
sing a song in praise of cunt,

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I'd want to keep my word,
the one with teeth in it.

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Forevermore, and even
after I was raised,

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I swore nothing but nothing
would be beneath me.

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[QUIET CLAPPING]

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[CHUCKLES] The sound
of one hand clapping.

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[LAUGHS] It's a
spiritual moment.

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[LAUGHTER]

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All right.