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https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3r8EkbN3DCk&ab_channel=Mr.Bungle-Topic

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A printing press -

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Hard to imagine, really, 

The dying of a monarchy

Alongside the dye, of a guillotine -

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All brought about by a printing press.

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In a bombed-out radio station, hidden under

Toppled scaffolds, blackened leaflets, and

Tiger-stripes of arbitrarily layered graffiti …

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An old,

Beat up 

1952
CB radio 

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Had been carefully re-assembled, duct taped open

And set beside the headset of a Walkman.

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And its owner

Pictured a podium, a printing press

And a bottle of 1789 Château Lafite.

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Rothschild

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He chuckled to himself, mouth watering

And listening to the CD, skip.

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