WHEN THE SLEAZEBALL
GENTRY ARRIVE
They'll be led, I assume, by the most
ordinary scum : in groups like Manta
Rays or Nancy Mairrones. Apple
mouth princes, slobs of the moment.
No one at home to turn over the keys.
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We shan't be looking, mind you, not
for that. Their tracks will be sealed
and easy to trace in blood marked with
icicles, lathered with these foremost
icons of dejection. Those who do the
biddings of others because they're too
decrepit to do their own.
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I built a house once on the railroad
tracks; and I let the trains run right
through it. My porters and conductors
carried their own books, with all the
clues written down : we knew who'd
killed the last Mayor, we know who'd
installed now the clown.
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