Frederick Seidel: Trump for President!
The LRB Podcast
London Review of Books
4.4 • 581 Ratings
🗓️ 29 June 2016
⏱️ 2 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Trump for president. |
| 0:03.6 | A perfect week for digging up the block. |
| 0:07.9 | If you care, you repair the infrastructure, or it will despair. |
| 0:13.6 | Bear with the noise, we aren't made of air. |
| 0:17.8 | Tyrannosaurus wrecks on tires, gorging horribly, fucks the street in bursts and jerks, |
| 0:24.6 | the operator riding it bucks and charges forward and resumes his hippopotamus mouthfuls. |
| 0:33.6 | The scene's a slaughterhouse with dead meat screaming. |
| 0:40.5 | Maybe the concrete is fully conscious. |
| 0:43.6 | Major surgery without anesthesia. |
| 0:50.1 | You'll need earplugs and a hard hat while this berserk year runs amok. |
| 0:52.5 | We actually need a talk. |
| 0:54.8 | What now? |
| 0:56.5 | Now what? |
| 1:01.4 | We are poor little lambs who have lost our way. |
| 1:05.6 | We are little black sheep who have gone astray. |
| 1:09.9 | Oh, say, can you see what we're about to be? |
| 1:12.6 | What am I, chopped liver? Oh, say, can you see what we're about to be? "'What am I, chopped liver?' "'Oh, say, can you see, |
| 1:15.8 | "'we're about to be the Nuremberg rally in an alley.' |
| 1:20.6 | "'I text the sky, high sky. |
| 1:24.4 | "'Oh, infinite and blue. |
| 1:27.2 | "'In a green pasture, up in the blue sky, oh, infinite and blue. In a green pasture, up in the blue sky, a cow chews her heavenly |
| 1:33.9 | cud, a garland of orchids around her neck. Cow-eyed hira, goddess, but not goodness, |
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