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Of how the modern person acts:<br />
Running here, running there,<br />
Agitation and despair,<br />
Incurably Titanic –<br />
The common man is manic.<br />
The modern world in disarray.<br />
It might be time to sit and pray<br />
And let Camille Sain-Saens express<br />
An anthem for this crazy mess:<br />
For nothing could be truer.<br />
Than this fanfare for the insecure.<br />
4. THE TOURIST. (JACKASS)<br />
PROGRAM / PROGRAM<br />
The tourist runs away from home<br />
And all the roads that lead to Rome<br />
Are packed with speeding human ants<br />
Wearing lightweight tourist pants<br />
Catching buses, catching trains<br />
Catching colds in aeroplanes<br />
Hurtling to everywhere;<br />
Through the streets and through the air<br />
Faster faster, more and more.<br />
Through another hotel door<br />
Photograph it, see it all<br />
See another Chinese wall<br />
One more continental shelf.<br />
Tourist you should see yourself.<br />
5. THE OLD, OLD MAN. (TURTLE)<br />
The old, old man is a weary beast;<br />
He pulled the plough, he pulled the cart<br />
Through the famine and the feast;<br />
It broke his back, it broke his heart<br />
But it did not break the magic spell<br />
That gave him wings to drift and fly<br />
With music that he loved so well<br />
To sweethearts floating in the sky.<br />
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6. ME<br />
The me slowly emerges<br />
And when it does it’s splendid;<br />
Delightful inner urges<br />
All beautifully extended.
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