^^Take for example the cannibals who with their gawky music, dance, rhymed saying, tattoo-body painting and carving, haven't gone further in even Eat-art than this simple culinary antimetabole.

(chorus):

We don't live because we eat, we live to eat, pam-pam,

We don't live to eat, we live because we eat, pam-pam,

We don't live because we eat, we eat because we live, pam-pam,

We don't live to eat, we eat to live, pam-pam,

We don't eat because we live, we eat to live, pam-pam,

We don't eat to live, we eat because we live, pam-pam,

We don't eat because we live, we live to eat, pam-pam,

We don't eat to live, we live because we eat, pam-pam.

(group a:)

We die because we eat, pam-pam,

We die to eat, pam-pam

We die to be, pam-pam,

You die because we eat, pam-pam,

You di e so we can eat, pam-pam,

You die so we can be, pam-pam,

We areyou, pam-pam,

You are we, pam-pam,

Long live Death, pam-pam! Pam-pam!

(group b:)

We die because you eat, pam-pam,

We die so you can eat, pam-pam,

We die so you can be, pam-pam,

You die because you eat, pam-pam,

You die to eat, pam-pam,

You die to be, pam-pam,

You are we, pam-pam,

We are you, pam-pam,

Long live Death, pam-pam! Pam-pam! (Subsistence Level-rite song— collected by the IPUT on the Grand-Menou Island, 1990.)

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