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A bayonet is a knife-like attachment put on the end of a gun for melee combat. There is “bayonet blood” because the girl’s stab wounds are leaking.

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Snuff and sniff can refer both to snorting drugs (such as the PCP mentioned in the previous line), and a child sniffing as they cry (as one might reasonably expect a child molested by Michael Jackson to do – see the following clause).

Snuff films are films in which a person is killed on camera

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Everyone dies.

“In the sweat of thy face shalt thou eat bread, till thou return unto the ground; for out of it wast thou taken: for dust thou art, and unto dust shalt thou return.”
Genesis 3:19

Also similar to the Curtis Mayfield song “(Don’t Worry) If There’s a Hell Below, We’re All Going to Go” stating that when we die we’re all gonna go to hell anyway.

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Based on LSD advocate Timothy Leary’s catchphrase, “Turn on, tune in, and drop out”.

Note the use of “plug in”, associated with plugging in electronics, especially television in this instance. Also, “drop out” is replaced with “cop out” – to avoid/shirk responsibilities or not meeting expectations. May also include a pun on ‘cop’ meaning ‘police’ too. These phrases imply a sedentary, wasteful existence.

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The infamous statement that cues into commercial breaks. Once the revolution begins, there will be no advertising breaks to split up the momentum.

That’s also a reference to the opening lines of the poem:

You will not be able to lose yourself on skag and
Skip out for beer during commercials
Because the revolution will not be televised

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British pop singer, born Arnold George Dorsey.

May have been chosen for this list because, well, can you think of a whiter name than Engelbert Humperdinck?

“In 1965 Dorsey teamed up with Gordon Mills, his former roommate in the Bayswater area of London, who had become a music impresario and the manager of Tom Jones. Aware that Dorsey had been struggling for several years to become successful in the music industry, Mills suggested a name-change to the more arresting Engelbert Humperdinck, borrowed from the German 19th-century composer of operas such as Hansel and Gretel. Dorsey adopted the name professionally but not legally.” from Wikipedia

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Feminists. It has become somewhat of a stereotype of hardcore feminists that they will not conform to male expectations and even shave their armpits, resulting in “hairy armed women.”

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References a contemporary Schick advertisement, “Schick will get rid of the nubs” (nubs being stubble)

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Soul food made from the stomach (maw) lining of a pig.

The line is a reference to Nixon, Mitchell, Abrams, and Agnew’s rapacious attitudes and actions toward the black community. The confiscated hog maws from a Harlem sanctuary symbolize the Black community’s people and resources.

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Willie Mae could refer to Willie Mae “Big Mama” Thornton, or could be a generalized reference to distorted images presented by television news of black urban rebellion from Watts (1965) to the present.

This line is often misheard as Willie Mays, African American MLB player, considered one of the greatest baseball players of all time.

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