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The One Count
Three counts for mountebanks out of the eye,
Seven for the turf lords with their telephones, Nine for candidates, doomed to lie, One for the media with its high tone, On the television where you learn to buy. One count to fool them all, one count to blind them, One count to fix on so they’ll never look behind them, On the television where you learn to buy. November 2000
From the Daily Whale.
On vote recounts in the 2000 presidential election.
Parody of the ring poem from
Tolkien’s
Lord of the Rings.
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