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“Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you - / Then, it will be true.”
“I asked you, baby, If you understood- You told me that you didn't, But you thought you would.”
“The past has been a mint Of blood and sorrow. That must not be True of tomorrow.”
“Cheap little rhymes A cheap little tune Are sometimes as dangerous As a sliver of the moon.”
“LIBERTY! FREEDOM! DEMOCRACY! True anyhow no matter how many Liars use those words.”
“Life is a system of half-truths and lies, Opportunistic, convenient evasion.”
“Wear it Like a banner For the proud? Not like a shroud.”
“I am the American heartbreak- The rock on which Freedom Stumped its toe.”
“Money and art are far apart.”