I thought it worked, Janet, especially the end.
Best,
Rebecca
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>Date: Sat, 19 Feb 2005 23:00:14 +0800
>From: Janet Jackson <[log in to unmask]>
>Subject: Ripped (a poem about the words on shirts)
>To: [log in to unmask]
>
>Does this work for anyone? (Yes or No will do, but I really would
>like to know!)
>
> Ripped
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>
> I CARE FOR NOBODY
> said the shirt.
> Fucked, ripped, empty.
> $60 of emotionless 2005 neopunk.
> 10 of them identical. That's
> 600 blankstare dollars.
>
> 1976 punk said CRASS
> or ANARCHY. And if your
> shirt was ripped, it wasn't ripped
> in a Chinese sweatshop.
>
> Who cares for nobody?
> The corporation.
>
> "Anger is an energy"
>
> If I can't have love give me hate.
>
> I bought jeans. Hot red,
> flared, textured, labelled
> PERVERT
>
>Janet
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