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By shomi

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He’d rather sell hoses than grow roses For a banker to barter for peaches.Write a script, they said, make a movielines that are groovy.A book of verse? What could be worse.Study the situationreport on your generationanalyse the actionof the ruling faction  in the daily news.On the whole,you must change your views.And the love-crazed girls trade flowersto dream of razed cities and towersscaled with rapunzel curls. Written November 1st, 2001 © on Nov 01 2001 01:35 PM PST   20 • 0 • 1

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"He’d rather sell hoses than grow roses For a banker to barter for peaches.Write a script, they said, make a movielines that are groovy.A book of verse? What could be worse.Study the situationreport on your generationanalyse the actionof the ruling faction  in the daily news.On the whole,you must change your views.And the love-crazed girls trade flowersto dream of razed cities and towersscaled with rapunzel curls...."

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