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Here is a poem I wrote
called "Tenderloin."

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I was writing specifically
about an area in San Francisco.

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And when I'd written
the poem, I wondered

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what people would make
of it outside of San

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Francisco, like if they
were reading it in England,

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for example.

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So I wondered if the word
was in the dictionary, as

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opposed to meaning
tenderloin from steak,

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of course, a tenderloin steak.

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And I found some very
interesting definitions.

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Two definitions.

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One, a former district
of New York City

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from 23rd to 42nd
Streets west of Broadway

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where vice flourished and
police corruption was common.

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Sounds very like it
is today, isn't it,

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in New York City in
that particular area?

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Two, any urban district noted
for its nightlife, incidence

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of crime, and police leniency.

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Notice how where vice
flourished has become nightlife.

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And police corruption has
become police leniency.

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So I guess you've got
a tenderloin in Tucson.

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I don't know.

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Do you?

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Is there an area called that?

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No.

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No, not yet.

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Give us time.

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And I'm making play
also with the phrase--

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I'm making a pun
on tender loin--

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tenderloins.

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The reason that these districts
were called that, I have since

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learned, was that
the corrupt police,

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instead of eating
hamburgers, were

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able to eat free meals
of tenderloin steak

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in the tenderloin.

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That's what I've
been told anyway.

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"Tenderloin."

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This poverty recognizes a street
only as link between corners,

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greasy with expedient.

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Corners turned or waited
on, slippery as they may be,

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for transactions
or news of them.

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Not poverty beaten
down, poverty, rather,

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on the make without being
clever enough to make it.

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Smallish sums pass hands.

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This poverty seeks
out stereotype--

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gentle black whore, foul-mouthed
old cripple, snarling skinhead,

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tottering transvestite,
et cetera.

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City romantics.

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Come on, you, obey your impulse.

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Costs only a little more
than in the country.

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It's also slippery.

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But you might say one lubricant
is as good as another.

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And there's no such thing as an
insincere erection, is there?

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Think of the Spanish fly.

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It irritates the urethra, which
has been capable, however,

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of responding to more
delicate stimuli.

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And of the loins too,
firm, open slopes

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that lead to the padded
valley, tender loin.

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Protecting the serviceable
channel and glands,

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delicate almost as
eyeballs, tenderness

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anesthetized and irritated.

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Strip it bare.

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Grease it well with its own
foul lubricant against the grit

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of its own sharp corners.

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Scrape it to orgasm.

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Nasty poem.

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