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IN MEMORIAM/

There is no laughter in those critters/
No joy in their summer's day/
They crawled and we uttered not a word/
Often we cowered just to breathe another day/

Let it be written by all scribes that are known/
It has been resolved here and nowhere else/
The value of property is greater than the sanctity of life/

Musa is dead because he broke a windowpane/
For a mangled box Falieu was properly felled/
Poor Fatou lost her life because the police chief lost his hat/

There is no reprieve for Isaac from the Mountain/
Let his blood run the slopes and drape the innocence below/
We all sleep well tonight!/

Raze their swings and bury their toys/
Discard their Formulas and burn their shoes/
Dismantle and dismantle the children!/
Quarantine their mothers and crate-up their fathers/
Yahya reins, so does seven yards of cotton and rain/

Sleep well tonight everyone, sleep well the eternal sleep

****Long Spear****

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