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Let not the masses
speak
in the third-person
inscribed
he mouthed the words
and returned to his tent
torn between
the revelation
and good old-fashioned apathy

And
(in what would later
be celebrated
as the last great outburst of
eurocentrism)
quoted aloud to the canvas
O God!
I ccould be bounded in a nutshell
and count myself a king
of infinite space
and wondered about the punctuation
and wondered why the radio
was white noise
when you can get that for free

Patty Hearst

Talk to me
is the way you answer the telephone
when you've become a success
You will say this in hallways
and lobbies
and movie theaters
and in all the great architecture
Today the terrorists
Baader-Meinhof?
knocked down a cell phone tower
like a statue of Lenin
(dated reference)
leaving a full regiment of Wall-Street-types
in a local coffee shop saying
talk to me
like a question