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lirik lagu richard wilbur - shame

it is a cramped little state with no foreign policy
save to be thought inoffensive. the grammar of the language
has never been fathomed, owing to the national habit
of allowing each sentence to trail off in confusion
those who have visited scusi, the capital city
report that the railway~route from schuldig passes
through country best described as unrelieved
sheep are the national product. the faint inscription
over the city gates may perhaps be rendеred
“i’m afraid you won’t find much of interest hеre.”
census~reports which give the population
as zero are, of course, not to be trusted
save as reflecting the natives’ fl~stered insistence
that they do not count, as well as their modest horror
of letting one’s s~x be known in so many words
the uniform grey of the nondescript buildings, the absence
of churches or comfort~stations, have given observers
an odd impression of ostentatious meanness
and it must be said of the citizens (muttering by
in their ratty sheepskins, shying at cracks in the sidewalk)
that they lack the peace of mind of the truly humble
the tenor of life is careful, even in the stiff
unsmiling carelessness of the border~guards
and douaniers, who admit, whenever they can
not merely the usual carloads of deodorant
but gypsies, g~strings, hasheesh, and contraband pigments
their complete negligence is reserved, however
for the hoped~for invasion, at which time the happy people
(sn~ggering, ruddily naked, and shamelessly drunk)
will stun the foe by their overwhelming submission
corrupt the generals, infiltrate the staff
usurp the throne, proclaim themselves to be sun~gods
and bring about the collapse of the whole empire

- lirik lagu richard wilbur

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