Word: comin
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Dates: during 1970-1979
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...Comin Khmere, a Danish-directed firm with assets of $50 million, has long had a monopoly on many of the goods coming into Cambodia. Severs hopes to work around them, however, with the help of the American Embassy. He says that as a virtual monopoly they have been charging exorbitant prices for years, and that he will be able to undercut them. "I can sell the same can of milk for which they've been getting 18 riels for 6 riels," he explains...
...anyone of money." Money, he says, was never his aim. "It was the sheer thrill of moving in and out of the trees and bushes, the excitement of never knowin' what might happen next to you. You get a lovely eastern sky at dawn and the geese comin' in toward you−it's a picture some people never see in their entire lives. If I had my time over again, I wouldn't do any different." Then after a pause, he adds: "Except I'd be a lot more cunning...
...compared with Caesar's or the Sands. But by night! ELVIS. In mile-high neon. As if the very stars had fallen from the desert sky, the guts wrenched out of the moon; all so that some mad manipulator of electric gases could spell out ELVIS-COMIN AUGUST...
...occasional step beyond this anger reveals a chillingly ironic humor ("You can take niggers out of the country/ But you can't take the country out of niggers.") The absolute pathos of poems like "Jones Comin' Down" and "Two Little Boys," both about addiction, do not have the driving frustration of the other songs, but convey more in terms of human values. Rather than an angry tirade, these are short vignettes of ghetto life, the more real because they are understated...
...addict, 16: You gonna shoot dope, Ralphie. You gonna be in jail or you gonna be dead. The pushers ain't gonna disappear just 'cause you comin' home, Ralphie...