THE
RATIONALIZATIONS
OF DAVID THE DAD
Nodding at hallucinations
Chapter 21
aThere are holes in his hands.
2He holds them out to me,
3Lets me take the long cold Lincoln fingers of a murdered son of God,
4And then he grips my hand, so that I can feel my bones crack in his clasp,
5And he says, “It is simpler than you think,
6“And bigger too,
7b“And life is not a frail thing that disappears in a puff of fear,
8“But far stronger than you know,
9“And though it knows its time,
10“It is never imprisoned by it,
11“Never done in by it against its will,
12“Because the weakest something is stronger than the strongest nothing,
13c“And nothing never wins.”
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