Cheap Imitation is a piece for solo piano by John Cage, composed in 1969. It is an indeterminate piece created using the I Ching and based, rhythmically, on Socrate by Erik Satie.
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For he today that sheds his blood with me
Shall be my brother; be he ne’er so vile,
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