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Consult the antisocial oracle Jello Biafra

https://youtu.be/efgNZptpH3A?si=H0gSY0wcuWauDtbd

"Nazi punks fuck off" Ok class, everybody get out your spray paint cans

"Born again with fascist cravings"

"fascist cravings" by itself is genius

The guitar is amazing. Precision vandalism. The guitarist's name's East Bay Ray I believe. I kind of wish that was my name. How do you get a name like that?

The many

reincarnations

of the wigged-out

rose bush

across the

smog bank

the creepy fascist atmosphere

the poetry and the low lying agony

Raise your hand if you caught the Walt Whitman Abraham Lincoln funeral reference. It's a double-decker literaturary allusion. You got Walt Whitman with the beard full of cacoons and butterflies as imagined by Lorca -- Lorca dapper half smiling himself the only witness to that half smile turning to face the wall -- and you got the coffin inside the coffin is the extinguished eden the corpse of a singular human imagination an abyss collapsing in on itself the banished ash curling in on itself the tear falling into its reflection the involuting nautilus shell of self forgetting

"the post-constitutional leviathan" Steve Bannon

The poem at least fails successfully to make any kind of statement which is an important facet of remaining in phantasmagoric relationship with the uncreated germ. The frothy subtropic enclaves and pockets of honesty and chaos in the shadow of the Imperial mirage

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