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Gift-bearers were a lot like

Politics itself is, "Showbiz

For ugly people.") In this world

If anything went wrong there

Was always enough money around

To cover it. After he was through

With this crowd he started hanging

Out with a bunch of academic

Gangsters. These were

A different crew altogether:

Smart, on the main, but mean

And eaten alive by resentment.

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