THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
IRA
A moving and historic sceneA really really good time in Malibu
Chapter 16
There is also some footage that may have been taken a few hours later on the Learjet,
2And maybe a few jereboams of lchampagne later too,
3Because there are a lot of great big empty Moët bottles around,
4And the camera seems kind of tipsy,
5Which is why it takes a few tries to figure out what’s going on,
6Until you realize that this is quite a moving and historic scene,
7Because Harry is mwashing the hands of his new followers,
8nWith fizzy water from little green bottles,
9While he speaks softly and calmly to each oone in turn,
10Saying, Let me wash the worst of the grime off your hands,
11Which is necessary if you are going to enjoy your new life with me,
12pBecause you will not get a chance to lay your hands on the truth,
13Unless they’re qclean,
14Which seems like a reasonable request to me,
15Because I think they’d even be within their rrights to make you shower first,
16Since this is a glamorous and exotic Learjet,
17Streaking toward Malibu,
18And not some grubby mixer,
19At the Sigma Delta Sigma fraternity house.
20And one by one, the followers allow Harry to prepare them for a new life,
21And if you can stand the motion of the camera, you can identify all of them,
22Including sNed in his t‘Off the Capitalist Pigs’ T-shirt,
23And aSam in his b‘Ho Ho Ho Chi Minh’ T-shirt,
24And cVinnie in his d‘Woodstock Forever’ T-shirt,
25And eWillie in his f‘Ginsberg for President’ T-shirt,
26And gIra in his h‘John Wayne Sucks’ T-shirt,
27And iTony in his j‘Make Love, Not War,’ T-shirt,
28And kJerry in his l‘Power to the People’ T-shirt,
29And mTom in his n‘Nuke the Napalmers’ T-shirt,
30And oMort in his p‘No Free Speech for Imperialists’ T-shirt,
31And qFred in his r‘Hotchfield Prep School’ T-shirt,
32And sJoe in his t‘America: Love It or Leave It’ T-shirt,
33And actually, you can even see uLucky standing off to the side,
34Smiling,
35In a brand-new vthree-piece suit.
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