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What Makes You Think


by Darryl Price


any of us will be remembered by 
tomorrow at all? Our arguments seem 
always to be not for, but against, something 
pretty obvious. What makes you think 
your home planet will be spared from the universal 
sarcasm of the Heavenly 

Hosts? What makes you so sure we're opening 
ourselves to something unbelievably 
lovely at the end? Hell is being 
good and lost when you know the way home. What 
makes you think your rotten heart has no fine
qualities worth mentioning? What makes you 

think this house isn't burning down just because 
you believe in its many haunted 
wails? No one lives without shadows peering 
into his soul. What makes you think all this 
everlasting beauty isn't the sound 
of a certain inevitable pain 

trying to express itself? What makes you 
think opening a different door will 
surely bring back your wonderful innocence? 
We are never not here. What would make 
you think I'm not trying to make you love 
me? We all want to con the chemical 

evidence into a much better outcome. 
The situation remains a very 
loud silent night for someone somewhere. 
What makes you think they don't know how it feels 
to go out of your mind with so much loneliness 
and sadness going on in the 

mad world? What makes you want to deny humanity 
to the least? They are you. We 
are them. What makes you think all the things you've 
done wrong are not fading away? What makes
you think actions don't speak louder than words?
Anyone. Any town. Your own backyard.        
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