By Jack Joseph Smith
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AI Interpretation
This page uses a string of blunt commands to mock ordinary ideas of power before ending with identification with people pushed to the street or to the margins.
Domestic tidying, gifts, money, and lying about gangsters are all treated as shallow gestures of control. The final turn is intentionally jarring, forcing power to be measured against dispossession rather than status.
''''Power' -- paint your door, rearrange the mess, spend eight hundred dollars on a good gun, call anyone who talks gangsters 'a lier.' Closer: 'Jesus is a street person, and homosexuality is a living end.''''