THE GOOD WORD ACCORDING TO · THE ULTRA-HARRIER
VINNIE
Harry delivers the best possible newsThe most important question about life
Chapter 14
For a while there, during jsome of Harry’s remarks, the multitude had grown restless,
2As if they did not entirely approve of Harry’s line of conversation,
3But when he announced that they were all kgreat,
4Exactly the way they were,
5They jumped to their feet, whistling and shouting and applauding,
6Because they dug what he was saying,
7And wanted to hear more.
8Thereupon, Harry gave it to them, in these words:
9All your lives, you have been lpoor white trash,
10And you sort of figured that was a bad thing to be,
11If you ever thought about it at all,
12And there were maybe times when you felt ashamed about all your dad’s mprison sentences,
13And how beat up your mom used to look every Sunday morning,
14And how you could never hold down a steady job,
15Because you got drunk,
16Or lost your temper,
17Or couldn’t read the directions,
18Or were just too stupid to do what they wanted,
19Whatever it was.
20nBut you and your people have been here for a long long time now,
21And you’ve never ochanged in all that time,
22Which is why thing are different now,
23Because the pwheel spins round and round all the time,
24And every once in a while a different number comes up,
25qAnd this time it’s your number,
26Because all the time that you’ve kept on being you,
27Other people have been getting more and more like you all the time,
28Even if they didn’t notice,
29And now they’re aalmost exactly like you,
30bIn many many ways,
31Which is why it’s suddenly your turn to set the pace for everyone else,
32And show the whole population of the Most Chosen Nation on Earth how to be cwhite trash,
33Just like dyou.
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