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Happened on this song on Tiny Desk: Paperclip Maximizer (by Rosie Tucker, from an album titled "Utopia Now!").
Paperclip maximizer Single minded if you mind at all A paragon of puritanical panoptical persistence Everybody envies your resolve Paperclip maximizer Mining for a better way No ontological contention Tends your content generation Every sorrow makes a link in the chain
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And the shareholders meet gruesome ends But the cosmos expands So the market survives All the better to bear all your office supplies And the space they require was once occupied By the sun On your hair And the curve Of your thighs Horizon of sighs Destroyer of worlds
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