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Video killed the Book star


Your image makes it powerful

Attach it to words and it couldn't been any better than setting the words on fire

Igniting the black, foiled, bricks that are supposed to support the drowned victimless shamful faces

So go ahead, read to the camera you show puppet

Set the books on fire, set the facade to work

War the worn, torned out blank canvas

Spit in a book, set the face of jumbled masses in a silky paste

So go ahead, read to the camera

And let's gather around the end-

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