
Author: James Parker
James Parker is a contributing editor at The Atlantic.


COCKY: THE OPERA (4)
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“Don’t scratch me, don’t bite! / For aggro I have no appetite.”
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COCKY: THE OPERA (3)
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“The taste of me, the waste of me, / the problems never faced of me.”
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COCKY: THE OPERA (1)
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“Fuck the rhyme, the sacred slime / that sticks the words together!”
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CARBONA YOUR ENTHUSIASM (2)
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I was 11; I was at an all-boys boarding school in Suffolk, England.
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THE KALEVALA (24)
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Oh in your slimy seal-womb hide me./My last earth-breath expands inside me.
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THE KALEVALA (23)
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“And what are you worth,/old man, if you can’t rouse the earth?”
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