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This is one that I wrote when
I was out here last time.

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I was trying to
write things that

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were set in this landscape.

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And so there's a place
around here called

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the Shrine of the Sinners,
which I don't know if you all

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know about, but which
we're adjacent to,

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which seems to be a
parking lot, but which

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has a little shrine there.

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And so I wrote a
poem called "Ignatz

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at the Shrine of the Sinner."

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And one thing this refers
to is, Ignatz is always

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represented as, instead of
having any kind of expression,

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he just has a V drawn in the
middle of his forehead, which

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is meant to represent
a perpetual scowl.

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So this refers to that.

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"Ignatz at the Shrine
of the Sinners.

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Night, like a black glass
bell, and the fading echo

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of the detox chakras, helpless,
helpless, helpless, helpless.

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If fleshly importuning
were to fall silent,

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all those wonderful people
out there in the dark.

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Each sinner's left behind
a little sinner diorama,

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model village of
laminated photos,

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silk flowers, strung with wire.

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Ignatz tiptoes unseen through
thickets of votive prayer

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candles, holding as his candle
snuffer an aluminum rose.

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And the chorus kicks in.

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Ignatz, he's a stalker,
or a snicker, or a stain.

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The V on his forehead stands
for villain or for vain.

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O tongueless talker, will
you never teach him shame?"

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