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RANSFIXED with anguish (O Daughter of Iniquity) I stood when I saw the sarcastic moonlight Gild the contents of your Unthrifty garbage can. O wasteful and slackminded offspring Of a cheese-witted peasantry, Fallen in evil ways While in service to the Peking profiteers, When half the world is starving You would toss away A practicable mouse-patty Or an undamaged rice-cake— When you die And your miserable wraith Approaches the Pagoda of the Immortals