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shadowlightThe Devil will be glad
to sell you the past,
to tell you the war is over
once you can no longer hear the screaming in the distance;
All it will cost you is the future
(you never even saw it, you won't even miss it)
and you can live in 1958 forever
until the children start disappearing
until the water runs out
until Ward and June come to your house in the middle of the night and say they're so hungry and they're so thirsty and they're so sorry but we all took a vote and decided of everyone in Mayfield they needed you the least and if you'd only brought a pie to the damn potluck supper maybe you wouldn't be the ones to die but it's too late for excuses and choices and we gave you a boxful of second chances, dear, and we'll tell the Haskells you moved away.
(ahem)
until the war is over and you never chose a side.
except, perhaps, as a sin of omission.
to sell you the past,
to tell you the war is over
once you can no longer hear the screaming in the distance;
All it will cost you is the future
(you never even saw it, you won't even miss it)
and you can live in 1958 forever
until the children start disappearing
until the water runs out
until Ward and June come to your house in the middle of the night and say they're so hungry and they're so thirsty and they're so sorry but we all took a vote and decided of everyone in Mayfield they needed you the least and if you'd only brought a pie to the damn potluck supper maybe you wouldn't be the ones to die but it's too late for excuses and choices and we gave you a boxful of second chances, dear, and we'll tell the Haskells you moved away.
(ahem)
until the war is over and you never chose a side.
except, perhaps, as a sin of omission.
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on 2012-06-10 03:22 am (UTC)