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I posted a version of this not too long ago but wasn't happy with it. This is the new version.

Hipster Town

with it's mortuary circus and Adolph Eichmann clowns
with their guillotine smiles as they slyly pull you down
and the jubilation choir and mercenary crowds

with the slumlord apostles wearing broken promise crowns
and the peacock statuary where Holden Caulfield drowned
and the shopping mall tourists and their disapproving frowns

the dime store reporters writing missionary prose
and the tenancy board convening its kangaroo court
and the theocracy of protest reciting tired phone book songs

with the box store promotions of the next greatest thing
and the faithless city councillors slipping off their wedding rings
and the culture speculators setting up for the next sting

the evangelical cleavage falling from the stars
and the emasculated paperboys crooning for their gods
and the upper crust conventioneers and their nightstick cigars

the five and dime revolution in the pages of the press
with their cardboard cut-outs of Buffalo Bill and Joan Baez
and the punch line politics that leave you in a mess

with your Jean Paul Sartre novel dangling from your lips
and your cigarette queens and icicle quips
and the ceremonial daggers worn by the priesthood of the hip

with the pride you take cause you can count to four
and the common crows caw you call beautiful
and the cut and paste tapestries hanging on your wall

with their indiscrete revelations of the second coming of christ
and Babylonian uncertainty and suicide rites
and the sentimental ballerinas and their emotional tripe

with your greeting card lyrics and white bread liturgy
and the fire truck donations to the victims of our greed
and your dollar store purchase of cheap irony

with your convictionless fables and prime time clones
and your pledge of allegiance to the trendsetting drones
and the debutantes licking candied microphones

the hobo secretary who can't afford her clothes
and the Karl Marx societies antiquated hunting dogs
and the Amelia Earhart lonely hearts fan club

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