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Just a couple more from this.

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So this has a little bit of a
relationship to the Vietnam era

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too.

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You might know that Francis Ford
Coppola movie Apocalypse Now,

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which was such a fiasco that
there was even a documentary

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made by his wife regarding the
horrific stories that happened

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during that period of time.

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One of these stories is
focused on in this little poem.

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Coppola decided for authenticity
that Mr. Kurtz's tribe

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would have to be
genuine headhunters

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from the Philippine jungle.

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So at great expense he
imported them to the movie set,

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and over a period
of several weeks

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he had an anthropologist teach
them, phonetically, to sing

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the Doors song "Light My Fire."

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And after this
elaborate ritual, he

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decided that it
wasn't exactly right

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for the purposes of the movie,
so it got cut out of the film.

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But anyway, the title of this
poem is "Francis Ford Coppola

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and Anthropologist Interpreter
Teaching Gartewienna Tribesmen

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to Sing 'Light My Fire,'
Philippine Jungle 1978."

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"It's done phonetically, of
course, at great expense.

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Dr. Singh, the bullhorned
anthropologist,

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struts with Francis
on the peopled set.

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Insists on short hours
for the warriors, who

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must hunt wild pig tomorrow, an
annual ritual that should not

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be disturbed.

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But integrity
matters less to him

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than his large consulting fee.

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Back in Manila, he
will buy a Mercedes SL,

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and forget about the
leader's new double knits.

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Leader's number three
wife snorting coke

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with Dennis Hopper,
Brando signing

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glossies for the witch doctor
to grind into aphrodisiacs.

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Caw-mawn bay-be light
my fire,' they chant.

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What mean, apocalypse now?

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asks Leader.

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Dr. Singh, mean, everybody
die together here."

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