THE ADVICE OF THE ARCH-ANGEL MATTHEW · TO THE
KENSINGTONIANS
The strong right arm of AmericaA catastrophe for the Kensingtonians
Chapter 23
sAnd that’s when everybody in the whole world turned on you,
2Because they had forgotten who you were,
3And why they had ever needed you,
4Because now they knew that America couldn’t fight a war without using nuclear weapons,
5tWhich meant that you and your baseball bat had gotten to be more of an embarrassment than a help,
6And so when they looked at you they didn’t see your guts anymore,
7uOr the force of your blind raging loyalty to each other in the face of the enemy,
8vOr all the dirty work you had ever done to build their nice things for them when you weren’t in jail.
9aInstead, they saw you as racist killers,
10bAnd dirty useless animals,
11cAnd the perfect example of everything that was worst in the whole species,
12And then, because they had forgotten everything else too, they forgot that anyone had ever been ddifferent,
13And decided that everybody in the whole wide world was really just a dirty useless racist killer,
14Just like you,
15Them included.
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