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The Immortal Lester Bangs

Robot A. Hull, Unicorn Times, July 1982

"...but there is a death in the balance and you better look long and hard at it, you stupid fuckheads, you who treat life as a camp joke, you who have lost your sense of wonder about the state of being alive itself, I AM OUT FOR YOU, I know who you are and I'll shoot you down with the weapons at my command, and I don't mean guns..." 
— from Lester Bangs' "He Was a Friend of Mine", New York Rocker, 1977

Total word count of piece: 1144

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