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By Victor Schwartzman, on 03-09-2007 13:12

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Justin Hyde is a parole officer living in the US:

//this kid across from me//

twenty-six
fresh off the bus
after ten years
in anamosa
for breaking
some lady's jaw
and stealing her
purse.

he's dead-pan
telling me
george bush
all the politicians
and millionaire businessman
are criminals too
they're just hustling
a slicker-tip
than most of these
dough-boys
slinging piecemeal-rock
and finger-fucking
cracker-jack cash
off the streets.

he's got plans
for flipping
real estate
and otherwise
exploiting
the natural tendency
of people
to seek shelter
within the herd
at the expense
of logic.

as his parole officer
i'm supposed to
disabuse him
of that
train of thought.

supposed to
help him see
it's a
cognitive
distortion.

but i've never
been able to
lie
with a
straight
face.


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