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[35] vA r i AT i O n S O n A P O L i T i C A L T h e M e i. Stop picking pennies off the ground! you’re making us all look discontent. ii. There was a time when you’d slice up the whole watermelon, invite us neighbors over for a little music, run a flag up the pole, call the meeting into session. now your socks can’t get white enough. now your bread tastes like sulfur and the potatoes won’t grow. iii. i pledge my faith to the glass chapel, to fire my rifle like a man. My loyalty goes to the highest bidder, and my allegiance to sky earth city country god, in that order. neighbor, you’ve never established perimeters. Go help the others sew patches to our uniforms. i’ll cordon us off with razor wire. i’ll boil the hambone myself. ...

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