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WE WERE WRONG

Occupy Lunch
by Ralph Steadman

Millions of us old, battered Believers
prayed for this movement to arise -
while knowing it was impossible:

“Americans are too lazy.
Americans are too selfish.
Americans are too cowardly.
Americans are too enslaved by their
iPods, their iPads, their iPhones.”

Well, we were fucking wrong!
I spit on the ground, and curse my doubt.
Curse you, Doubt!
I spit on the ground again.
Double-curse you, Doubt!

Let a rainbow arise made of 7000 wigs.
Lunch will be served in the cafeteria of the soul.
Lunch will be served, rejoicing.
Lunch, my friends, will be served.

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