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(The poet used to write such beautiful patriotic poetry. She is so sad to have to make this post. Maybe someday we’ll rember what we stood for.)

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We don’t appreciate poets here.

Appreciate ’em? Hell, we don’t even LIKE ’em.

We can’t read well enough, most of us, to tell a poem from a Hallmark greeting card.

If you ever want to sleep again…

… You will consent to polite imprisonment in “public housing”…

Where you will not be able to work.

There.

Guess we took care ‘a THAT.

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