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Well I'm having a problem, so
I can't read "Brighton Rock"

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by Graham Greene," which
is a new poem I like.

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Read that one.

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Read that one?

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OK.

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A Graham Greene fan, huh?

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All right, we'll go
through it really quick.

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I like the poem.

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What?

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It's the poem we're fans of.

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Oh, the poem, all
right, all right.

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We'll go through it really
fast, so follow along

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in your hymn books here.

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[LAUGHTER]

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"Brighton Rock by
Graham Greene."

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"Pinkie Brown must
marry Rose Wilson

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to keep her mouth shut about
the murder which the cops don't

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know wasn't no accident--

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Peggy has a straight
razor for slashing,

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a vial of acid for throwing
into, a snitch's face.

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He dies in the end.

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The end of the book, I mean--
where, on the last page,

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Rose shuffles home from church,
praying that her Pinkie has

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left her pregnant.

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Now this kid-- if
he was ever born--

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joined a skiffle group in
'62 called Brighton Rockers,

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didn't make it big, though,
just local dances and do's.

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Rose, pink, brown, all
nonelemental colors,

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shades of shame,
melancholy, colors which,

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if you get caught
loving too much,

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you get set up to do time--

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time, that crime you
didn't, couldn't commit!

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Even if you were
or weren't born--

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and even and if your dad
he died with his sneer--

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unshaken his punk's
pure soul, unsaved--

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Every Sunday now in
church Rose slices--

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Every Sunday now in church Rose
slices her ring-finger off,

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onto the collection plate.

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Once the sextons have
gathered enough bodily parts

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from the congregation, enough
to add up to an entire being,"

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You know how they do that in
the Roman Catholic Church.

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I'm a good Protestant, but I
know what goes on in there.

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[LAUGHTER] You know,
bloodletting and all sorts--

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The priest takes that entire
being made of all the parts,

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slash, cut off themselves
by the congregation.

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--"the priest substitutes
that entire being for the one

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on the cross--

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they bring Him down in
the name of brown and rose

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and pink, sadness, and
shame, His body, remade,

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is yelled at and made to
get a haircut, go to school,

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study, to do each day like
the rest of us crawling

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through this igloo of
hell, and laugh it up,

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show pain a good time, and
read Brighton Rock by Graham

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Greene."

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That's one of the painful--

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reading that is one
of the painful--