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The state
of the American musical
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has me very upset.
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It's the state of America
that should have you upset.
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It does.
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It's a metaphor, you asshole.
:28:12
Now, just a minute.
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I have a picture
of a starving child in Somalia
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over my desk at the clinic.
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It doesn't justify
you calling me--
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Five feet away,
a vulture sits and waits.
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Just sits and waits.
He's not even looking at the kid.
:28:22
He's that certain
where his next meal is coming from.
:28:24
We've all seen the picture, Buzz.
:28:25
Not like this kid
is going to get up
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and launch into some number
from "Oliver!"
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- Or "Porgy and Bess."
- We've all seen the picture.
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I haven't.
:28:38
So what is your point?
:28:41
My point?
:28:42
I don't have a point.
:28:45
Why does everything
have to have a point?
:28:48
I sit, and I look
at that picture every day,
:28:50
And I get sick
to my stomach,
:28:51
and sometimes
I cry a little bit, and so what?
:28:54
So fucking what?
:28:55
That kid is probably
dead meat by now anyway.
:28:58
I think the point is
we're all sitting around here
:29:00
talking about something,
pretending to care.
:29:02
- No one's pretending.
- Pretending to care...
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because the truth is there's nothing
we can do about it.
:29:10
That kid is a picture
in a newspaper
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who makes us feel bad
for having it so good.
:29:16
But feed him,
brush him off,
:29:18
and in 10 years, he's just another
nigger to scare the shit out of us.
:29:25
Apologies tendered,
but that's how I see it.
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Apologies not accepted.
:29:30
You'd rather I dissembled?
:29:31
Yes, I would.
:29:33
I'd rather the man
I shared my life with
:29:36
and love
with all my heart--
:29:37
I'd rather he dissembled
:29:39
than let me see the hate
and bile there.
:29:41
The hate and bile
aren't for you, love.
:29:43
Well, that's not
good enough, Perry.
:29:45
After a while, the hate and bile
are for everyone.
:29:48
It all comes around.
:29:54
Anyway...
:29:56
I hate that word.
:29:58
You use it to get yourself out
of every tight corner