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This song was written in response to Meredith Walters' poem "Chiling at the Pole" you can read it here: bushwickbookclub.com/bbc_files/ChillingatthePole-MeredithWalters.pdf or just listen to Memo's song which is the whole poem rapped.

For more Susan Hwang, please visit susanhwanglalala.com.

For more Meredith Walters, please visit www.sawpalm.usf.edu/0708/1/reviews/walters.aspx and visit the Brooklyn Public Library, the big near Grand Army Plaza. She curates adult programming there at the Dweck Center.

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St. Nick is a Dick. He gets a kick from
every nit pick he can stick in
each condition of his conditional love
It's the kind it takes years to recov-
er from because manipulation hurts, ouch.
It means so many expensive hours lying down on the couch.
You can keep what you've got in your pouch.
Thanks Santa.

He'll draw lines in the sand so you know where to stand.
Don’t bother keeping up or keeping score.
There’s no good for goodness sake.
He makes the rules for you to break.
Whatever you get he's getting more.

But ho ho, what Santa don’t know
is you can forgo all the presents and coal
if you realign a child’s psyche in time
to centuries of survival-trauma induced standards of perfection.

Soon you don’t have to berate them at all.
They’ll berate themselves if they let they’re grades fall.
See, no need for presents at all.

A little ancestral shame goes a long, long way.
Every Asian parent can say "Duh, duh... duh... duh.. Duh, Santa."

Genetic brow-beating is hard to compete with.

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from The Bushwick Book Club's Not​-​So​-​Secret Santa Holiday Exchange, released December 15, 2011
Recorded live at Goodbye Blue Monday on December 15, 2011.

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We started in January 2009 playing songs written in response to Kurt Vonnegut's Breakfast of Champions. We haven't stopped since. We've written & performed songs inspired by everything from "On The Origin of Species" to Dr. Seuss to Raymond Carver. There are BBCs popping up nationwide now. Bushwick Book Club Seattle started in 2010 & is run by Geoff Larson. Our nerdy dare-devilry knows no bounds. ... more

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