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Small Cake

from SPECIAL WEAPONS by GASKILL

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Roads don't spring full formed from the forest. Teachers don't climb down ladders from clouds. Armies aren't held at bay by prayer. Children die if death's allowed, and death is allowed for the slimmest of profits by the fattest of men in the hungriest times. The cake gets smaller but no less sweet, and our teeth decay as we till the soil with our hands.
We scrub the air we need for our lungs. We sift the poison out of our grain. We comb the biting lice from our hair, and we raise our daughters there.
If you say that the sky is blue today they'll stomp the words right out of your mouth and ask you why you would make that claim, and do you have proof? Because the jury's out, and an ounce of opinion beats a pound of fact. The end of the thought weds the end of tact. So, before you speak, well, you best retract-- unless you want to dig your own shallow grave with your hands.
We scrub the air we need for our lungs. We sift the poison out of our grain. We comb the biting lice from our hair, and our sons are soldiers there.
We trade our books and reason at the local commissary for work gloves and a shovel to dig a trench for fighting, or else for cemeteries. We dig while we are healthy or at least while we are able. Do you have a candle left, or has it burnt to nothing? And what have you been planning to carry in the morning?

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from SPECIAL WEAPONS, released June 22, 2018

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GASKILL New Bedford, Massachusetts

GASKILL formed in 1995 in New Bedford, Massachusetts, releasing 2 demos and the Granite Iron Oak album before going on hiatus in 2002. The band reformed in 2015 with Chris Helme on drums, releasing an album of new material, The End of the World, and an album of Black Flag covers (Our War). In 2018, with Dan Jagoda on drums, the band is releasing the Special Weapons album on the 75orless label. ... more

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