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Kenneth Patchen - In Order To
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Apply for the position (I`ve forgotten now for what) I had 
to marry the Second Mayor`s daughter by twelve noon. The 
order arrived three minutes of. 


I already had a wife; the Second Mayor was childless: but I 
did it. 


Next they told me to shave off my father`s beard. All right. 
No matter that he`d been a eunuch, and had succumbed in 
early childhood: I did it, I shaved him. 


Then they told me to burn a village; next, a fair-sized town; 
then, a city; a bigger city; a small, down-at-heels country; 
then one of "the great powers"; then another (another, an- 
other)—In fact, they went right on until they`d told me to 
burn up every man-made thing on the face of the earth! And 
I did it, I burned away every last trace, I left nothing, nothing 
of any kind whatever. 


Then they told me to blow it all to hell and gone! And I blew 
it all to hell and gone (oh, didn`t I). . . 


Now, they said, put it back together again; put it all back the 
way it was when you started. 


Well. . . it was my turn then to tell them something! Shucks, 
I didn`t want any job that bad.
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