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The last poem that I'll
read from this sequence--

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title of it is
"The Assassination

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of John Lennon as Depicted by
the Madame Tussaud Wax Museum,

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Niagara Falls, Ontario, 1987."

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"Smuggled human hair
from Mexico falls

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radiant around the
waxy O of her scream.

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Shades on, leather coat and
pants, Yoko on her knees,

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like the famous
Kent State photo,

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where the girl can't
shriek her boyfriend alive,

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her arms wind-milling Ohio sky--

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a pump in John's chest
heaves to mimic death throes.

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The blood is made of latex.

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His glasses broken on
the plastic sidewalk.

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A scowling David Chapman--

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his arms outstretched,
his pistol barrel

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spiraling fake smoke
and a siren's red wash

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completes the composition.

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And somewhere background
music plays Imagine,

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before the tableau darkens.

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We push a button to
renew the scream.

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The chest starts up again."

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