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That's what the Board of Education
called Simon's poem yesterday.
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-Hello.
-Yeah. I'm listening.
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I'm Edna Rodriguez and I write for
the "Queens County Examiner."
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I was just wondering if I can
have a word with Simon Grim?
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Simon!
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You can't talk too long with him,
because he writes all day.
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That's all he does. Can you believe
that? Simon, get down here!
:58:40
Simon, Edna.
She's from the newspaper.
:58:42
The parent's association is
calling your poem pornography.
:58:47
The teachers are defending
the students' rights to exercise...
:58:50
critical taste and sensibility. The
county agrees with the church and...
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considers the poem emblematic of
modern society's moral...
:58:56
disintegration. How do you feel
about these reactions to your poem?
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Simon, answer the woman.
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-I need my prescription pills.
-Mom, Edna. Edna, mom.
:59:15
Mrs. Grim, what was Simon
like as a child?
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-We all thought he was retarded.
-Everyone did.
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-Never said a word.
-Masturbated constantly.
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-Had no friends.
-Till he met Henry.
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"Dear Mr. Grim:
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we here at the magazine consider
ourselves open-minded...
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and consistently print the work
of the most brilliant young talent.
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Every week we are forced to return
writing which we cannot publish...
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and include a brief
but polite refusal.
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But this tract you sent us demands
a response as violent...
:59:49
as the effect your words
have had upon us.
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Drop dead.
Keep your day job.
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Sincerely, the editors."