The dead pull the living down.
And what we__e been always been is_?___s living on borrowed time. Never caring about who__ paying for it, who__ starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs _ planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering. And meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are innocent. There__ no uninnocent dead.__fter a while, __ou__e not going to explain that, or___ourse not, it__ a koan.
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And what we__e been always been is_?___s living on borrowed time. Never caring about who__ paying for it, who__ starving somewhere else all jammed together so we can have cheap food, a house, a yard in the burbs _ planetwide, more every day, the payback keeps gathering. And meantime the only help we get from the media is boo hoo the innocent dead. Boo fuckin hoo. You know what? All the dead are innocent. There__ no uninnocent dead.__fter a while, __ou__e not going to explain that, or___ourse not, it__ a koan.
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