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In Dachau

by @lark-train

Imaginary man, go. Here is your passport. The imaginary city will not miss you. The paper woman will not kiss you. The snake oil train will too soon depart. Imaginary man, weep. The furnaces tore you 'part. Reality here is fain to kill you. When no one else can cry, will you? The tears in past you'd always dry, now refuse to start. Imaginary man, flee. Your soul is free of this evil fort. Their guns shall never train on you. Their gases cannot murder you. But here you stay, a ship which burned in fallen port. Imaginary man, die. Liberty and Innocence cry. Reality shall pay no mind. The child's slain on concrete floor. Did you bring your passport?
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lark-train
Published
May 10, 2016
Time
2m
Notes

Innocence weeps for want of morality. The innocence of a generation wept for want of an imaginary friend.

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#man#death#friend#child#imaginary#holocaust#dachau
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