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If nothing really matters,
then
everything matters equally
And this pile of shit
left out on the lawn
Is worth as much as the Mona Lisa
or the Empire State Building.
If I were to tear this blank
sheet of paper
I would be as destructive as if I
tore the manuscript for Hamlet
or the 28 million dollar
first appearance of Batman.
If politics doesn't matter
then
My life is worth a king's ransom
which is equal to the shit
sitting on the lawn.