Petition by Nadine Sellers

Ah! Let us don the garb of pretense let us be the model before the immoral lending telegenic faces to the greatest cause in the name of little intellect in the ready to wear department of righteous indignation after a fashion we seek facsimile there assume nobility in signature the right to litigate to mitigate laudenum ad nauseum cum laude we chose to agree we sign away first in ink then in four color poster we frown the public frown at private atrocities first in ink then in water, tears come easily to drown the public voice the larger world the lesser cause private interest public causes the larger the populus the stranger vox populi out of fashion out of favor the word outrage becomes new rage pen in hand thegood suffer this current affliction that pain du jour another vehicle of fame and fortune conductors of the vicarious wagon find in the poet and the politician the new antagonist of the next plot to same place

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