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Good evening, friends and neighbors

Or shall I say this afternoon?

It would behoove me audaciously

At this juncture in our compilation

To officially declare this congregation

The single largest amalgamation

Of any one particular nation’s population

To ever receive an invitation

To a situation of such enduring magnitude

Forthwith and notwithstanding

Any misunderstood grandstanding

As it would pertain to the expansion

Of our national tantrum

In such a grand and/or irrational fashion

And I would implore you to explore

A more tangible interpretation

Of our national anthem

The likes of which we we could plausibly take platinum

If you would turn with me in your hymnals

To the book of Verbatim

Of botherations

Ad nauseatum

Ain’t that some bullshit?

Ain’t that some bullshit?

Ain’t that some bullshit?

Ain’t that some bullshit?

When you allow good men to die for your freedom

Only later to recall them as having fought for your flag

That’s some bullshit

Henceforth, fourscore

And way too many more years before

The last first responder ever forgot to remember Seven-Eleven

Untoward a more perfect reunion

Of our most effervescent endeavor

To linger here forever

With or without the express written consent

Of any nationally-resented softball league’s

Best politically-motivated pre-conditioned intentions

To lure your children

Away from these lives of crime that they are leading out on the streets

And lead them to lives of crime that would be taking place indoors

Lives of collusion the likes of which this world has never seen before

Depending on what your definition of the word «is» is

Ain’t that some bullshit?

Ain’t that some bullshit?

Ain’t that some bullshit?

Ain’t that some bullshit?

I say, read my lips and I’ll show you my taxes

And by that I meant to say that if I am elected

I never said any of that shit

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