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"The wheel."

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"To begin the ceremony,
we all do cartwheels

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As a symbolic tribute
to the one great wheel

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at the center of our town.

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Then we club one of our
neighbors over the head,

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Kiss him on the cheek,

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And feed him to the wheel.

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To function, the town
needs the wheel to turn.

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To turn, the wheel needs to eat.

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Call this a reciprocal
relationship.

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Don't ask me about
the science of it all.

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The people who could
explain the science

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have all been fed to the wheel.

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I think it goes like this.

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The wheel begins
its haunted mission.

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The gears rotate, Hallelujah.

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Civilization advances.

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Then we wipe up the blood,

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Listen to Elvis,
and go to brunch.

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When progress slows or the gears
do that raspy, grindy thing,

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We just toss another
guy beneath the wheel.

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The wheel eats the guy.

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The guts oil the gears.

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Is there a better
way to proceed?

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Could we find an alternate
substance to grease the machine?

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I don't know.

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That's an engineering question.

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And the engineers have
all been fed to the wheel.

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I can feel you looking at me,

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Getting all judgy from
your moral precipice,

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Ready to wag your finger in my
face and tell me about justice.

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Must be nice to live in a
town whose buildings weren't

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built with unpaid forced labor,

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Whose children wear shirts
that are always clean,

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Whose citizens would
never feed an innocent,

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Or 1,000 to a bullet
or a bomb or a wheel.

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But the truth is this.

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The wheel seems
to be everywhere.

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What do you think a planet is?

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The circle,

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This massive stone,

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Buzzing through the dark,

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Ravenous with hunger,

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Rotating beneath you.

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[APPLAUSE]

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