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and you are the taxi driver, I leap into your back seat and shout Follow that car it is us in the Plymouth, doing 80 on 80 us in the subway, on ice skates, in boxcars us in Detroit, Kansas, and Austin and us pale shadows in Providence begging imagination come home COME HOME THE ELECTRIC BILL IS THREE MONTHS OVERDUE THEY'VE TAKEN OUT THE TOILET PLEASE wontcha please cha please The Volvos huddle with the Saabs in underground parking, they chatter excitedly in Swedish and I swear to you that nothing is wasted. I place my utter faith in the conservation of energy and of course it matters of course the light matters of course I will take you for chocolate fondue

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