She has a
memory. One beautiful memory. Carefully held in the palm of her hands, so
that no one else might find it and steal it.
She must leave it nowhere. It
must always remain with her. The memory
of that one summer morning, while they still slept. The pavement of the driveway cool on her bare
feet as she stepped into the shadow cast by the huge Mountain Ash in the front
yard, the sun burning golden at the edges.
No one must have this moment.
This moment must never be touched.
Because she must
hold it so close and so carefully, she cannot hold onto any others. She lets the pictures framed in broken glass
fall through her fingers. There must
only be one world. One world, underneath
the tree, where no one else exists. Let
the others sleep. Let them all
sleep. She is a girl standing in the
shadow of a golden halo. She must never
step out. She must live here forever.
if
you must hear a story here is one for you if you must hear a story i know one
or two if i tell you a story i will only laugh if i tell you a story it will
surely be quite daft once upon a time in a room without a view there was a
little girl or maybe one or two he was strange he was weird he was a big
buffoon he had dandruff in his hair he liked to play the spoons there was a
connection you see between the first group and the last there was a line
between the trees when he was at last invited back bring the little girl see if
this time she will learn bring the little brat after all it is her turn but the
little girl was bad and ugly through and through at last they all gave up and
tossed her in this room you cannot come back they whispered into her ear you
belong to us but we don’t want you here so now she skips off into a night
without a gentle end she looks behind for the plagues that they might send i am
one of them whether i am here or there i am one of them my life you cannot
spare la la la la you cannot break the wall la la la la it’s a hundred feet
tall guarded all around by a thousand beastly men their axes and their spikes
pointed square at her neck la la la la here it is I smile la la la la we knew
this all the while humdumdedum together we will go humdumpudum ours is not to
know
