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16What of the skyscrapers?What contemptible hovels skyscrapers are when they no longer yield rents!Rising so high, full of poverty? Touching the clouds, full of debt?

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What of the bridges? The longest in the world, they now linkScrapheap with scrapheap.

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18Gramophone records are still sold, not many of courseBut what do they tell us, these cows who have not learnedTo sing? WhatIs the sense of these songs? What have they reallyBeen singing to us all these years long?Why do we now dislike these once celebrated voices?WhyDo these photos of cities no longer make the slightest impression on us?Because word has gone roundThat these people are bankrupt.

19For their machines, it is said, lie in huge heaps (the biggest in the world)And rustLike the machines of the Old World (in smaller heaps).

20World championships are still contested before a few spectators                        who have absent mindedly stayed in their places:Each time the strongest competitorStands no chance against the mysterious lawThat drives people away from shops stocked to bursting.

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