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Susan wrote and performed this song for the October 2009 Bushwick Book Club inspired by John Kennedy Toole's "A Confederacy of Dunces." This is a musical interpretation of the scene where the owner of the Night of Joy, Lana Lee, gives Darlene tips on her new strip tease act. For more Susan Hwang, please visit susanhwanglalala.com.

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Listen Darlene, it stinks is what's the matter.
You look like a whore and I'm not going to flatter
you.
The bird is good, but there's no big finale
if you look like a drunk nympho passing out in an alley,
because stripping is an insult to a woman; it's true,
but there's it doesn't work if there's nothing to insult in you.
They come for the fall not the fallen,
but there's no where to go if you're already at the bottom.
So try again, this time you're clean and chaste.
You've got to have a base to be debased.
If you're gonna make it worth their while,
you need something to defile.
You can't just start out a drunken floozy;
you have to have something to lose, see?

Like decency, honor, morals or status.
No need to have a fancy aparatus.
No whips, no chains or leather to strap in.
Just act like you don't want it to happen.

So be polite. Be shocked.
You're a virgin who's never seen a cock.
You don't even know what to do with one.
Ack, what is this mystifying protrusion, you get it?
It doesn't work if you're already a slut.
You've got to be pure to make good smut. Good smut.

credits

from The Bushwick Book Club Volume 1, released April 6, 2010
Recorded by Matt Roth at Olive Juice Music.

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The Bushwick Book Club Brooklyn, New York

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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