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Bob Dylan, whose birthday comes one day after mine:

Broken lines, broken strings,

Broken threads, broken springs,

Broken idols, broken heads,

People sleeping in broken beds

Ain't no use jiving

Ain't no use joking

Everything is broken

Broken bottles, broken plates,

Broken switches, broken gates,

Broken dishes, broken parts,

Streets are filled with broken hearts

Broken words never meant to be spoken,

Everything is broken

Seem like every time you stop and turn around

Something else just hit the ground

Broken cutters, broken saws,

Broken buckles, broken laws,

Broken bodies, broken bones,

Broken voices on broken phones

Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin',

Everything is broken

Every time you leave and go off someplace

Things fall to pieces in my face

Broken hands on broken ploughs,

Broken treaties, broken vows,

Broken pipes, broken tools,

People bending broken rules

Hound dog howling, bull frog croaking,

Everything is broken

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Take a deep breath, feel like you're chokin',

Everything is broken

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Thnkyo for the Biden impression. That helped me. Sure it is my failing I cannot make it through his stops and starts. But we all need to mind the poetry of these Aw shucksters, sucks to your asthma everybody, they persuade millions. Recommended from your public library is Beatty? Movie 'Mickey One. Set in Chitown and Detroit can be watched as a hard landing show of how rhetoric lands with people and how few are the places you can go to point to it from outside.

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As usual, intelligent, correct, and almost funny but none of what he is talking about is funny, it's deadly serious.

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"The center will not hold." Which way will it all go when the center goes? That is up to us.

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