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  (Written during a WBUR fund raising campaign)     ALL THINGS CONSIDERED seven days a week,
  And things that you consider make me sick...
  All these man-made and natural disasters,
  Clashes between the slaves and their masters,
  Corporate crime and poisonous refuse
  And bloody wars and military coups
  And AIDS and drugs and brutal revolutions
  And all the problems that have no solutions...
  And all this at your listener's expense...
  Please, please, consider something else!                                                   3/16/89
                                             --Michael Livshits