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FACADE AD NAUSEAM
Says the Drummer: Listen to this peace played for you! Swoon over the slapping in of tambourines these magazines I strum for you. Full Metal Jacketed flights on picked strings of red tracer light and drums beat with black fire-sticks in sync - the melodious staccato of firefights. Crackle go the notes under green starlight to a chorus of screams; background vocals. Says the Director: A song written for you! Understand? I will accept that thanks which brims my cup that I may “Fill ‘Er Up” with refined dark thick; gulped by machine’s thirsty feeding a nation's quick. While ordering your disband with my sleight of gun “to your land in peace we come.” Your surge now, "sorry gotta run..."
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