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Clandestine Operation

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The most appropriate comment,         besides pig knuckles on racks         & rabbits skewered on prongs         or the Chinese lettering         playing tricks with your Occidental eyes,         is the Breakfast at Tiffany's         approach to suffering -         that ambience of egg rolls         & fortune cookies dashed aside with         mild dosages of rose-petal tea         amid such trappings and parodies         of the human experiment left stammering         in the too crowded sun

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