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[Read this poem from top to bottom, then from bottom to top again] 

A kingdom of my own choices, my own soul, 
My own pepsi and coke and ford fairlane 

But it's my own show now and theirs don't matter, 
My own Gacy and my own Iraqi oil-zone, 

And I'll walk in my own vestive halls and screw with them, 
And they'll let me, they'll let me play with politics, and the kabbala, 
And when I shower and sing all to me in my own thrown of lust 

Their cognitive dissonance like socialism, 
Abstract and vague and I'll raise a family based on 
My ideals: 

bREak,, down 

the rules of language like cummings 
and I'll spit all over them, and my children will grow up just like me 
and it won't be till then that we see the problem, 

when I'm sittin in those vestive halls myself, like my grandfather, 
asking my grandson to calm the hell down. 

BUT THAT WAY LIES INSANITY 

by Jedediah Walls 

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