Coincidance - Principia Discordia

Thirteen Choruses
For The Divine Marquis
FIRST CHORUS
"You are afraid of the people unrestrained—
how ridiculous!"
— Sade*
I dreamed I called Rita Hayworth on the phone and asked her if she hears
the babies of Hiroshima screaming in the night.
"No," she said, "I useta have kinda kooky problems like that but my
analyst cleared them all up."
But—I insisted—after all, it was your picture that was painted on the
Bomb. Not Harry Truman, or Einstein, or even Marilyn Monroe. You.
"Well, yeah, if you wanna look at it that way," she said. "But, Christ, they
Was sticking my picture on everything those days."
But, but—I shouted—don't you feel any sense of responsibility?
"Waita-minit, Mac," she said, "what are ya, some kinda nut? Nobody ever
asked me nothing about it. They just went ahead and dropped it."
* Quotations identified as Sade are from Marquis de Sade, Grove Press, 1965. Those
identified as Marat/Sade are from The Persecution and Assassination of Marat as Performed by the
inmates of the Asylum at Charenton Under the Direction of the Marquis de Sade, by Peter Weiss,
Athenium, 1965.
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