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Recorded Reading (1:05): https://www.dropbox.com/scl/fi/ggsfmxd115zv2xlu29ccy/What-We-Really-Love.mp3?rlkey=fi73y0l8x46atbvj4093xc5k8&dl=0

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What We Really Love

Here in the United States
We love a criminal:
Of killing and of torturing
Our entertainment’s full

Don’t give us any of that stupid
Poetic emotion
It doesn’t even catch our eye
Unless there’s an explosion!

“Drama” is, to us, no human
Deep emotion ~ ick!
That stuff’s over there ~
We call that a “girlie flick”!

Remember, we must get a glimpse
Of someone’s bra or panties
And as for all our heroes
Any more, they’re strictly “antis”

Oh, were we gifted with a once
In a generation poet?
Our eyeballs are so spiral
That we don’t even know it.

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