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| − | Why [[Conservative]]? Here are some reasons to embrace -- and teach -- conservative principles:
| + | America I've given you all and now I'm nothing. |
| | + | America two dollars and twenty-seven cents January 17, 1956. |
| | + | I can't stand my own mind. |
| | + | America when will we end the human war? |
| | + | Go / yourself with your atom bomb |
| | + | I don't feel good don't bother me. |
| | + | I won't write my poem till I'm in my right mind. |
| | + | America when will you be angelic? |
| | + | When will you take off your clothes? |
| | + | When will you look at yourself through the grave? |
| | + | When will you be worthy of your million Trotskyites? |
| | + | America why are your libraries full of tears? |
| | + | America when will you send your eggs to India? |
| | + | I'm sick of your insane demands. |
| | + | When can I go into the supermarket and buy what I need with my good looks? |
| | + | America after all it is you and I who are perfect not the next world. |
| | + | Your machinery is too much for me. |
| | + | You made me want to be a saint. |
| | + | There must be some other way to settle this argument. |
| | + | Burroughs is in Tangiers I don't think he'll come back it's sinister. |
| | + | Are you being sinister or is this some form of practical joke? |
| | + | I'm trying to come to the point. |
| | + | I refuse to give up my obsession. |
| | + | America stop pushing I know what I'm doing. |
| | + | America the plum blossoms are falling. |
| | + | I haven't read the newspapers for months, everyday somebody goes on trial for |
| | + | murder. |
| | + | America I feel sentimental about the Wobblies. |
| | + | America I used to be a communist when I was a kid and I'm not sorry. |
| | + | I smoke marijuana every chance I get. |
| | + | I sit in my house for days on end and stare at the roses in the closet. |
| | + | When I go to Chinatown I get drunk and never get laid. |
| | + | My mind is made up there's going to be trouble. |
| | + | You should have seen me reading Marx. |
| | + | My psychoanalyst thinks I'm perfectly right. |
| | + | I won't say the Lord's Prayer. |
| | + | I have mystical visions and cosmic vibrations. |
| | + | America I still haven't told you what you did to Uncle Max after he came over |
| | + | from Russia. |
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| − | * they give you the power to defeat [[addiction]]
| + | I'm addressing you. |
| − | * they provide a basis for ignoring or rejecting nonsensical [[liberal media]] stories, [[Hollywood values]] and [[professor values]]
| + | Are you going to let our emotional life be run by Time Magazine? |
| − | * they welcome and enhance [[faith]]
| + | I'm obsessed by Time Magazine. |
| − | * they welcome and apply [[logic]]
| + | I read it every week. |
| − | * they resist [[deceit]] and [[liberal tricks]]
| + | Its cover stares at me every time I slink past the corner candystore. |
| − | * they welcome and encourage [[self-defense]], which is essential to psychological and emotional well-being
| + | I read it in the basement of the Berkeley Public Library. |
| − | * they minimize [[liberal]] stress felt by teenagers<ref>http://www.economist.com/science/displaystory.cfm?story_id=10717915</ref>
| + | It's always telling me about responsibility. Businessmen are serious. Movie |
| − | * they welcome and promote fidelity and frugality
| + | producers are serious. Everybody's serious but me. |
| − | * they encourage self-help and betterment
| + | It occurs to me that I am America. |
| − | * they aid traditional religion by reacting to and addressing modern culture
| + | I am talking to myself again. |
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| − | [[Conservative values]] have a unifying affect on people of [[faith]] despite differences in religion. Churches have reunited after centuries of division and discord based on an agreement on [[conservative values]].
| + | Asia is rising against me. |
| | + | I haven't got a chinaman's chance. |
| | + | I'd better consider my national resources. |
| | + | My national resources consist of two joints of marijuana millions of genitals |
| | + | an unpublishable private literature that goes 1400 miles and hour and |
| | + | twentyfivethousand mental institutions. |
| | + | I say nothing about my prisons nor the millions of underpriviliged who live in |
| | + | my flowerpots under the light of five hundred suns. |
| | + | I have abolished the whorehouses of France, Tangiers is the next to go. |
| | + | My ambition is to be President despite the fact that I'm a Catholic. |
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| − | [[Conservative values]] are powerful in resisting encroachment by the [[entitlement mentality]] on institutions, including churches and church staffs.
| + | America how can I write a holy litany in your silly mood? |
| − | | + | I will continue like Henry Ford my strophes are as individual as his |
| − | == References ==
| + | automobiles more so they're all different sexes |
| − | | + | America I will sell you strophes $2500 apiece $500 down on your old strophe |
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| + | America free Tom Mooney |
| − | | + | America save the Spanish Loyalists |
| − | == See also ==
| + | America Sacco & Vanzetti must not die |
| − | | + | America I am the Scottsboro boys. |
| − | *[[Conservative values]]
| + | America when I was seven momma took me to Communist Cell meetings they |
| − | | + | sold us garbanzos a handful per ticket a ticket costs a nickel and the |
| − | | + | speeches were free everybody was angelic and sentimental about the |
| − | [[Category:Essays about Conservatism]]
| + | workers it was all so sincere you have no idea what a good thing the party |
| | + | was in 1835 Scott Nearing was a grand old man a real mensch Mother |
| | + | Bloor made me cry I once saw Israel Amter plain. Everybody must have |
| | + | been a spy. |
| | + | America you don're really want to go to war. |
| | + | America it's them bad Russians. |
| | + | Them Russians them Russians and them Chinamen. And them Russians. |
| | + | The Russia wants to eat us alive. The Russia's power mad. She wants to take |
| | + | our cars from out our garages. |
| | + | Her wants to grab Chicago. Her needs a Red Reader's Digest. her wants our |
| | + | auto plants in Siberia. Him big bureaucracy running our fillingstations. |
| | + | That no good. Ugh. Him makes Indians learn read. Him need big black /ers. |
| | + | Hah. Her make us all work sixteen hours a day. Help. |
| | + | America this is quite serious. |
| | + | America this is the impression I get from looking in the television set. |
| | + | America is this correct? |
| | + | I'd better get right down to the job. |
| | + | It's true I don't want to join the Army or turn lathes in precision parts |
| | + | factories, I'm nearsighted and psychopathic anyway. |
| | + | America I'm putting my queer shoulder to the wheel. |