Frederick Pollack wrote:
>New Orleans
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>The Convention Center, September 2005
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You are dragged inexorably from one line to the next. Quo vadis,
Domine? The vision of dying in a lawnchair in the heat is bad enough.
The political twist (like a thumbscrew) of the last 2 lines makes this
one of the cruellest yet accurate things I've seen yet on this list.
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>If you are fortunate enough
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>to die in a lawnchair,
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>be sure to hook your cheek
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>on one of the metal poles
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>that support the backrest. Then
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>as your face sags
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>in the heat, you’ll look good, you’ll
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>repeatedly attract
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>the camera. What do I care,
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>you might say, if you could. Well,
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>would you rather be
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>that white-sheeted
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>grub by the wall,
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>down on the concrete, hard to see
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>behind people people people
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>and garbage? Or that pitiful
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>thing under a blanket
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>(a blanket!) of some sort
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>inside, in darkness?
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>There must be competition, inequality;
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>otherwise there would be no incentive.
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Ken
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Kenneth Wolman
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609-734-2538
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